
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.

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