Diahann Carroll
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
112
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 Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Love Boat
Great Performances
White Collar
The Red Skelton Show
Strong Medicine
Dynasty
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
The Merv Griffin Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Touched by an Angel
Naked City
Intimate Portrait
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Oscars
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
A Different World
Ellen
The Bob Hope Show
Twice in a Lifetime
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Ed Sullivan Show
Hurry Sundown
Peter Gunn
Sidney
Dinah!
Reading Rainbow
The Legend of Tarzan
Burke's Law
Carmen Jones
DuPont Show of the Month
Peeples
The Danny Kaye Show
The Colbys
Half & Half
Julia
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Flip Wilson Show
Back to You
Roots: The Next Generations
Sing Your Song
ABC Stage 67
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Hollywood Palace
Whoopi
Claudine
Soul Food
Night of 100 Stars
Paris Blues
The Sonny and Cher Show
The Court
Color Adjustment
The Julie Andrews Hour
Light Girls
Sister, Sister
The Masked Saint
The Star Wars Holiday Special
The Judy Garland Show
Eve's Bayou
The Big Show
Night of 100 Stars II
Porgy and Bess
The Five Heartbeats
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
The Front
The Split
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Jackie's Back!
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Goodbye Again
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Chance Of A Lifetime
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
The Best of Broadway
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
From the Dead of Night
At Risk
One More Time
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Death Scream
Not Only... But Also
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
The Courage to Love
Murder in Black and White
Diary of a Single Mom
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
The Sweetest Gift
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
Sunday in Paris
How It Feels to Be Free
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
The Strolling '20s
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
The Beatles Forever
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
