
Diahann Carroll
Acting
1935-07-17 - Present
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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.
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The Masked SaintasMs. Edna

The Star Wars Holiday SpecialasMermeia

Eve's BayouasElzora

Goodbye AgainasNightclub Singer

Mo' Better BluesasJazz Club Singer (uncredited)

The Five HeartbeatsasEleanor Potter

TV in Black: The First Fifty Yearsas(archive footage)

PeeplesasNana Peeples

Paris BluesasConnie Lampson

Light GirlsasSelf

Carmen JonesasMyrt

And the Oscar Goes To...asSelf (archive footage)

ClaudineasClaudine Price

Jackie's Back!asDiahann Carroll

The FrontasNana

Night of 100 StarsasSelf

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to MemphisasSelf (archive footage)

The Courage to LoveasPouponne

Hurry SundownasVivian Thurlow

The SplitasEllen "Ellie" Kennedy

Porgy and BessasClara

From the Dead of NightasMaggie

Night of 100 Stars IIasSelf

At RiskasNana

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal LifestyleasLydia Bishop

The Best of BroadwayasHerself

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 YearsasSadie Delany

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?asSelf

Sally Hemings: An American ScandalasBetty Hemings

Death ScreamasBetty May

Sister, SisterasCarolyne Lovejoy

Preminger: Anatomy of a FilmmakerasVivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited)

NBC 75th Anniversary SpecialasSelf

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in HollywoodasSelf

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole StoryasMaria Cole

Martin Luther King and the March on WashingtonasSelf

Murder in Black and WhiteasMargo Stover

Color AdjustmentasSelf

Sunday in ParisasVernetta Chase

Diary of a Single MomasTherapist

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi AbromowitzasDiahann Carroll

The Dean Martin Christmas ShowasSelf (uncredited)

The Beatles ForeverasSelf

The Sweetest GiftasMrs. Wilson

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBCasSelf

Francis Albert Sinatra Does His ThingasSelf - Singer

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk TaleasNarrator

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday SpecialasSelf

I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsasVivian

Motown 40: The Music is ForeverasSelf

Sing Your SongasSelf

How It Feels to Be FreeasSelf (archival footage)