Diahann Carroll
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
116
Gender
Female
Birthday
1935-07-17
Day of death
2019-10-04 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Bronx, New York, USA
Diahann Carroll
Biography
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.
Known For
Grey's Anatomy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
White Collar
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
Roots: The Next Generations
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Dynasty
Great Performances
Strong Medicine
Ellen
The Merv Griffin Show
Touched by an Angel
The Carol Burnett Show
A Different World
The Dick Cavett Show
Naked City
The Red Skelton Show
Dinah!
Intimate Portrait
What's My Line?
Peter Gunn
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Bob Hope Show
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Legend of Tarzan
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Half & Half
Burke's Law
The Danny Kaye Show
How It Feels to Be Free
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Julia
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Reading Rainbow
Twice in a Lifetime
Goodbye Again
The Sonny and Cher Show
The Colbys
At Risk
Claudine
Paris Blues
The Flip Wilson Show
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
The Front
Carmen Jones
The Split
Hurry Sundown
The Hollywood Palace
The Bell Telephone Hour
ABC Stage 67
Soul Food
Back to You
The Masked Saint
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Whoopi
DuPont Show of the Month
Color Adjustment
Light Girls
Sister, Sister
Mo' Better Blues
Peeples
The Five Heartbeats
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Courage to Love
The Judy Garland Show
The Court
Sing Your Song
The Julie Andrews Hour
Sunday in Paris
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Night of 100 Stars
Porgy and Bess
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Death Scream
Jackie's Back!
Murder in Black and White
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
The Big Show
The Sweetest Gift
From the Dead of Night
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Diary of a Single Mom
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
Eve's Bayou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
The Best of Broadway
The Beatles Forever
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Not Only... But Also
Night of 100 Stars II
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
The Strolling '20s
Chance Of A Lifetime
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
