Diahann Carroll
Born: 1935-07-17 in Bronx, New York, USA
Died: 2019-10-04
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Sidney as Self (archive footage)
2021
- How It Feels to Be Free as Self (archival footage)
2016
- The Masked Saint as Ms. Edna
2015
- Light Girls as Self
2013
- Peeples as Nana Peeples
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington as Self
2012
- Sing Your Song as Self
2009
- White Collar as June
- Diary of a Single Mom as Therapist
2007
- Back to You as Sandra Jenkins
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke
2004
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as (archive footage)
2003
- Whoopi as Viveca Rae
2002
- Half & Half as Grandma Ruth Thorne
- The Court
- NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2001
- The Legend of Tarzan as Queen La (voice)
2000
- Strong Medicine as Eve Morton
- Soul Food as Aunt Ruthie
- Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Betty Hemings
- Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Betty Hemings
- The Courage to Love as Pouponne
- Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story as Maria Cole
1999
- Twice in a Lifetime as Jael
- Jackie's Back! as Diahann Carroll
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years as Sadie Delany
1998
- Motown 40: The Music Is Forever as Self
- The Sweetest Gift as Mrs. Wilson
- Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood as Self
1997
- Eve's Bayou as Elzora
1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Crow (voice)
- Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as Narrator
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Grace Willis
- Ellen as Diahann Carroll
- Burke's Law as Grace Gibson
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle as Lydia Bishop
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
1992
- Color Adjustment as Self
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Vivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Five Heartbeats as Eleanor Potter
- Sunday in Paris as Vernetta Chase
1990
- Murder in Black and White as Margo Stover
1989
- From the Dead of Night as Maggie
1988
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz as Diahann Carroll
1987
- A Different World as Marion Gilbert
1986
1985
- The Colbys
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- The Best of Broadway as Herself
1983
- Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Sister, Sister as Carolyne Lovejoy
1981
- Dynasty as Dominique Devereaux
1980
- The Big Show as Self
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Zeona Haley
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as Vivian
1978
- The Star Wars Holiday Special as Mermeia
1977
- The Love Boat as Roxy Blue
- The Beatles Forever as Self
1976
1975
- Death Scream as Betty May
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Claudine as Claudine Price
- One More Time as Self
1972
- The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Julia as Julia Baker
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show as Self (uncredited)
- The Split as Ellen "Ellie" Kennedy
- Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing as Self - Singer
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self
- Hurry Sundown as Vivian Thurlow
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Self
- The Strolling '20s as Self
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
- Not Only... But Also as Self
1963
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- The Judy Garland Show as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Paris Blues as Connie Lampson
- Goodbye Again as Nightclub Singer
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- Porgy and Bess as Clara
1958
- Naked City as Ruby Jay
- Peter Gunn
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- DuPont Show of the Month as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- Carmen Jones as Myrt
1953
1952
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee