Diahann Carroll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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TV Series
A Different World
7.123
Grey's Anatomy
8.225
Half & Half
8.3
The Sonny and Cher Show
6
The Love Boat
6.3
Touched by an Angel
7.2
The Legend of Tarzan
6.81
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
Dynasty
6.5
Naked City
5.5
Soul Food
7
The Colbys
5.9
Twice in a Lifetime
5.5
Julia
6
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
Intimate Portrait
4.5
Peter Gunn
6.5
The Big Show
0
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
0
The Flip Wilson Show
4.8
Roots: The Next Generations
7.4
ABC Stage 67
6.2
The Court
10
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
White Collar
8.247
The Oscars
7
Chance Of A Lifetime
0
Tony Awards
5.1
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
The Judy Garland Show
8
Tony Awards
5.1
The Bob Hope Show
7
Reading Rainbow
8.4
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
What's My Line?
6.9
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
The Julie Andrews Hour
6
DuPont Show of the Month
6.75
Burke's Law
6.7
The Red Skelton Show
7.375
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
The Carol Burnett Show
7.7
Tony Awards
5.1
Tony Awards
5.1
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
Not Only... But Also
7.75
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Strong Medicine
7.1
Back to You
5.583
Dinah!
6.667
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
8
Golden Globe Awards
7
Ellen
6.2
Golden Globe Awards
7
Whoopi
8.7
Great Performances
5.3
The Danny Kaye Show
6.3
Tony Awards
5.1
The Bell Telephone Hour
7.333
Golden Globe Awards
7
Movies
Porgy and Bess
6.1
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
0
The Split
6.7
Paris Blues
6.461
The Five Heartbeats
7.37
Eve's Bayou
6.348
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
7.6
The Front
5.6
At Risk
4.5
The Beatles Forever
0
Carmen Jones
6.017
The Courage to Love
6.4
Peeples
5.6
Claudine
7.1
Sing Your Song
6.9
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
10
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6
Hurry Sundown
6.4
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
7.6
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
7.3
The Sweetest Gift
5
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
0
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
Light Girls
10
Mo' Better Blues
6.475
Night of 100 Stars II
8
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
7.5
The Masked Saint
5.6
The Star Wars Holiday Special
3.374
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
9
Goodbye Again
7.105
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
7
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
0
Sister, Sister
0
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
4
From the Dead of Night
5.5
The Best of Broadway
0
Murder in Black and White
0
Sunday in Paris
0
Color Adjustment
6.9
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
Death Scream
6.6
Diary of a Single Mom
4
How It Feels to Be Free
0
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
0
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
2
Night of 100 Stars
6.667
Jackie's Back!
6.857
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
0