Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll was born in The Bronx, New York, United States on July 17th, 1935 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 84, Diahann Carroll biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Carroll's biggest break came at the age of 18, when she appeared on the DuMont Television Network's Chance of a Lifetime program, hosted by Dennis James. 152 "Why Was I Born," she won the top prize on the show, which aired January 8, 1954. She went on to win the following four weeks. The Café Society and Latin Quarter nightclubs in Manhattan followed, shortly.
Carroll's debut was as a supporting actor in Carmen Jones (1954), as a companion to Dorothy Dandridge's sultry lead character. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical the previous year for her role in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. Clara appeared in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), but opera singer Loulie Jean Norman dubbed her Clara. Carroll made a guest appearance in Peter Gunn's "Sing a Song of Murder" (1960). She appeared in Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward's film Paris Blues (1961) for the first time for a Black woman) and received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1962. Sands was nominated for an Academy Award for her acting role in the film Claudine (1974), but she discovered she was terminally ill with cancer right away, as Carroll's cousin Sara. Sands tried to keep up with the role, but she became too ill to continue filming and recommended that her friend Carroll take over the role. Sands died in September 1973, long before the film was released in April 1974.
Carroll is best known for her recurring role in Julia (1968-71), 141–151, making her the first African-American actress to appear in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic employee. She received the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star Female for its first year, as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969. Earlier in Carroll's career, she included appearances on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Judy Garland, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar, and Ed Sullivan, as well as the Hollywood Palace variety show. Carroll joined the nighttime soap opera Dynasty in 1984 as the multi-race jet set diva Dominique Deveraux, Blake Carrington's half-sister, joined the narrator. Billy Dee Williams, a young girl who briefly played her onscreen husband Brady Lloyd, was also reunited with her on-screen husband Brady Lloyd. Carroll stayed on the show and made several appearances on its short-lived spin-off, The Colbys, before she departed at the end of the seventh season in 1987. Marion Gilbert, a 1989 actress, began appearing in A Different World as Marion Gilbert, for which she received her third Emmy Award the same year.
Eleanor Potter, Jimmy Potter's doting, worried, and protective wife (portrayed by Chuck Patterson) appeared in the musical drama film The Five Heartbeats (1991), which also stars actor and singer Robert Townsend and Michael Wright. In 1995, she reunited with Billy Dee Williams, portraying his character's wife Mrs. Greyson in Lonesome Dove: The Series. Carroll appeared in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the film Sunset Boulevard for the next year. Carroll made her animation debut in The Legend of Tarzan in 2001, in which she played Queen La, the king of the ancient city of Opar.
Carroll appeared in several episodes of Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the adamant mother of Dr. Preston Burke. She appeared on USA Network's series White Collar from 2008 to 2014, the savvy widow who rents out her guest room to Neal Caffrey. Carroll appeared in UnGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama titled 1 Minute in 2010 and appeared as Nana in two Lifetime movie adaptations of Patricia Cornwell's At Risk and The Front.
Carroll appeared on stage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013 to briefly discuss being the first African-American nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award. Kerry Washington, who was nominated for Scandal, was quoted as saying, "She should get this award."
Awards and nominations
- 2011: Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame
- 1992: Women in Film Crystal Award.
- 1998: Women in Film Lucy Award
- 2000: NAACP Image Award — Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
- 2005: NAACP Image Award — Soul Food
- 2016: Hollywood Legacy Award