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Oct 4, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died.
Oct 4, 2019 · Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84....
Oct 4, 2019 · Carroll, who passed away today in Los Angeles at the age of 84, starred in NBC’s Julia, portraying a single mother who was also an elegant professional woman.
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Not shy when it came to confronting racial barriers, Carroll won her Tony portraying a high-fashion American model in Paris who has a love affair with a white American author in the 1959 Richard Rodgers musical No Strings. Critic Walter Kerr described her as "a girl with a sweet smile, brilliant dark eyes and a profile regal enough to belong on a c...
The 1974 film Claudineprovided her most memorable role. She played a hard-bitten single mother of six who finds romance in Harlem with a garbage man played by James Earl Jones. Carroll says she got the role after the intended lead actress, Diana Sands, became sick and insisted her friend take the role (Sands died in 1973). But Carroll said those be...
Carol Diann Johnson was born in New York City and attended the High School for the Performing Arts. Her father was a subway conductor and her mother a homemaker. She recalls when she was around 3 or 4, her parents took her to North Carolina and left her in the care of her aunt there, without notice, for a year. She said it took a long time to forgi...
Oct 4, 2019 · Diahann Carroll, the captivating singer and actress who came from the Bronx to win a Tony Award, receive an Oscar nomination and make television history with her turns on Julia and Dynasty, died...
Oct 4, 2019 · Diahann Carroll, the elegant star of stage and screen who changed the course of television history in 1968’s groundbreaking sitcom "Julia," has died. She was 84.
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Oct 4, 2019 · Diahann Carroll, the groundbreaking actress who starred in Dynasty and Julia, has died at age 84. She was one of the first black actresses to have a major role on television.
