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  1. Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress, in 1976, and he told PEOPLE in 2016 that "my wife and my children mean the most to me". Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus shared a ...

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  2. Joanna Marie Shimkus (born 30 October 1943) is a Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier . [2] [3]

  3. Aug 7, 2021 · It was on the film set where the Academy Award-winner met his future wife, Joanna Shimkus, a fellow actor who was drawn to Poitier while filming the movie, per Closer Weekly. Poitier married Shimkus in 1976, over a decade after divorcing his first wife, Juanita Hardy in 1965 (via Women's Health ). The couple has been married for more than four ...

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  5. Joanna Shimkus was born on 30 October 1943 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Zita (1968) and The Uninvited (1969). She was previously married to Sidney Poitier.

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  6. Joanna Shimkus. (Canadian Film Actress and Wife of Actor Sydney Poitier) Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian-born actress, model and producer, best known for starring in movies, such as ‘Zita’ and ‘The Virgin and the Gypsy’. Joanna began her career as a model in Montreal and soon moved to Paris to further boost her position in the fashion ...

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  7. Jun 15, 2021 · Joanna Shimkus was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and made her way to the United States where she enjoyed a burgeoning acting career in the 1960s, per IMDb.The actor made her on-screen debut in 1964 ...

  8. Oh, Mrs. Poitier. And I said, no, I’m Joanna Shimkus. And she just gave me a little bit of a hard time. And I thought, you know, and I went home and it was like, I am tired of this. I’m not ...

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