Diahann Carroll
Acting · Born 1935-07-17 · age 84 at death · Bronx, New York, USA
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of an interracial diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series in 1968. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the 1974 film Claudine. She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
Titles
Grey's Anatomy
White Collar
The Star Wars Holiday Special
The Love Boat
Touched by an Angel
Eve's Bayou
Dynasty
The Legend of Tarzan
Carmen Jones
The Masked Saint
The Five Heartbeats
A Different World
Paris Blues
Peeples
Ellen
Claudine
Goodbye Again
Hurry Sundown
Roots: The Next Generations
The Split
Porgy and Bess
Half & Half
Peter Gunn
At Risk
The Front
The Colbys
Strong Medicine
Soul Food
Naked City
Back to You
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Jackie's Back!
Julia
The Courage to Love
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Death Scream
The Sonny and Cher Show
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
Twice in a Lifetime
Burke's Law
Whoopi
The Sweetest Gift
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
From the Dead of Night
Sunday in Paris
The Court
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Sister, Sister
Murder in Black and White
Diary of a Single Mom
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983