Diahann Carroll
Acting
Born July 17, 1935 · 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.
Films (54)
Sidney
2022
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
The Masked Saint
2016
Light Girls
2015
Peeples
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Sing Your Song
2012
The Front
2010
At Risk
2010
Diary of a Single Mom
2009
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000
The Courage to Love
2000
Jackie's Back!
1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
The Sweetest Gift
1998
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
1998
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
Eve's Bayou
1997
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994
Color Adjustment
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Sunday in Paris
1991
The Five Heartbeats
1991
Murder in Black and White
1990
From the Dead of Night
1989
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986
The Best of Broadway
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1983
Sister, Sister
1982
Night of 100 Stars
1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
The Beatles Forever
1977
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
1976
Death Scream
1975
Claudine
1974
One More Time
1974
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
1968
The Split
1968
Hurry Sundown
1967
The Strolling '20s
1966
Paris Blues
1961
Goodbye Again
1961
Porgy and Bess
1959
Carmen Jones
1954