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Diahann Carroll (/daɪˈæn/; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959). In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, a first for an African-American woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. In 1974 she starred in Claudine alongside James Earl Jones for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Diahann Carroll
Publicity photo, 1976
Born	Carol Diann Johnson (1935-07-17)July 17, 1935 New York City, U.S.
Died	October 4, 2019(2019-10-04) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actress singer model activist
Years active	1950–2016
Spouses	Monte Kay ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1963)​ Fred Glusman ​ ​ (m. 1973; div. 1973)​ Robert DeLeon ​ ​ (m. 1975; died 1977)​ Vic Damone ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 1996)​
Partner(s)	Sidney Poitier (1959–1968) David Frost (1970–1973)
Children	1

Her title role in Julia, for which she received the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female, was the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role,[1] and was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s, she played the role of Dominique Deveraux, a mixed-race diva, in the prime time soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including her Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, and five Emmy Award nominations. She died on October 4, 2019, from breast cancer.[2]

Carroll was a part of and a major figure during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Early years

Carol Diann Johnson was born in the Bronx, New York City, on July 17, 1935,[3] to John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel (Faulk),[4] a nurse.[5][6]^: 152 While Carroll was still an infant, the family moved to Harlem, where she grew up except for a brief period in which her parents had left her with an aunt in North Carolina.[7][6]^: 152[8] She attended Music and Art High School,[9][3][7] and was a classmate of Billy Dee Williams. In many interviews about her childhood, Carroll recalls her parents' support, and their enrolling her in dance, singing, and modeling classes. By the time Carroll was 15, she was modeling for Ebony.[5][9] "She also began entering television contests, including Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, under the name Diahann Carroll."[5][3][6]^: 152 After graduating from high school, she attended New York University,[3] where she majored in sociology,[6]^: 152 "but she left before graduating to pursue a show-business career, promising her family that if the career did not materialize after two years, she would return to college."[5]

Career

Carroll's big break came at the age of 18, when she appeared as a contestant on the DuMont Television Network program, Chance of a Lifetime, hosted by Dennis James.[5][7][6]^: 152 On the show, which aired January 8, 1954, she took the $1,000 top prize for a rendition of the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein song, "Why Was I Born?" She went on to win the following four weeks. Engagements at Manhattan's Café Society and Latin Quarter nightclubs soon followed.[10]

Carroll's film debut was a supporting role in Carmen Jones (1954),[5][9][3] as a friend to the sultry lead character played by Dorothy Dandridge. That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway musical, House of Flowers.[5][3] A few years later, she played Clara in the film version of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), but her character's singing parts were dubbed by opera singer Loulie Jean Norman.[5][9][3] The following year, Carroll made a guest appearance in the series Peter Gunn, in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" (1960). In the next two years, she starred with Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward in the film Paris Blues (1961)[5] and won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (the first time for a Black woman) for portraying Barbara Woodruff in the Samuel A. Taylor and Richard Rodgers musical No Strings.[1][5][9][3] Twelve years later, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role alongside James Earl Jones in the film Claudine (1974),[1][5][9][3] which part had been written specifically for actress Diana Sands (who had made guest appearances on Julia as Carroll's cousin Sara), but shortly before filming was to begin, Sands learned she was terminally ill with cancer. Sands attempted to carry on with the role, but as filming began, she became too ill to continue and recommended her friend Carroll take over the role.[9] Sands died in September 1973, before the film's release in April 1974.[9]

Carroll is known for her titular role in the television series Julia (1968-71),[5][3][6]^{: 141–151} which made her the first African-American actress to star in her own television series who did not play a domestic worker.[1][9] That role won her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female for its first year,[3][11] and a nomination for an Primetime Emmy Award in 1969.[3] Some of Carroll's earlier work also included appearances on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Judy Garland, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar, and Ed Sullivan, and on The Hollywood Palace variety show. In 1984, Carroll joined the nighttime soap opera Dynasty at the end of its fourth season as the mixed-race jet set diva Dominique Deveraux,[5] Blake Carrington's half-sister.[9] Her high-profile role on Dynasty also reunited her with her schoolmate Billy Dee Williams, who briefly played her onscreen husband Brady Lloyd. Carroll remained on the show and made several appearances on its short-lived spin-off, The Colbys until she departed at the end of the seventh season in 1987. In 1989, she began the recurring role of Marion Gilbert in A Different World, for which she received her third Emmy nomination that same year.[9]

In 1991, Carroll portrayed Eleanor Potter, the doting, concerned, and protective wife of Jimmy Potter (portrayed by Chuck Patterson), in the musical drama film The Five Heartbeats (1991),[3] also featuring actor and musician Robert Townsend and Michael Wright. She reunited with Billy Dee Williams again in 1995, portraying his character's wife Mrs. Greyson in Lonesome Dove: The Series. The following year, Carroll starred as the self-loving and deluded silent movie star Norma Desmond in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the film Sunset Boulevard. In 2001, Carroll made her animation debut in The Legend of Tarzan,[12] in which she voiced Queen La,[13] ruler of the ancient city of Opar.[14]

In 2006, Carroll appeared in several episodes the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the demanding mother of Dr. Preston Burke. From 2008 to 2014, she appeared on USA Network's series White Collar in the recurring role of June, the savvy widow who rents out her guest room to Neal Caffrey.[15] In 2010, Carroll was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama titled 1 a Minute, and appeared as Nana in two Lifetime movie adaptations of Patricia Cornwell novels: At Risk and The Front.[16]

In 2013, Carroll was present on stage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards to briefly speak about being the first African-American nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She was quoted as saying about Kerry Washington, nominated for Scandal, "she better get this award."[17]

Personal life

Carroll was married four times. Her father boycotted the ceremony for her first wedding, in 1956, to record producer Monte Kay,[5][9] which was presided over by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. The marriage ended in 1962.[18] Carroll gave birth to her daughter, Suzanne Kay (born September 9, 1960), who became a journalist and screenwriter.[5][19][20]

In 1959, Carroll began a nine-year affair with the married actor Sidney Poitier.[5][7] In her autobiography, Carroll said Poitier persuaded her to divorce her husband and said he would leave his wife to be with her. While she proceeded with her divorce, Poitier did not keep his part of the bargain.[21] Eventually he divorced his wife. According to Poitier, their relationship ended because he wanted to live with Carroll for six months without her daughter present so he would not be "jumping from one marriage straight into another." She refused.[22]

Carroll dated and was engaged to British television host and producer David Frost from 1970 until 1973.[5][7] In February 1973, Carroll surprised the press by marrying Las Vegas boutique owner Fred Glusman.[5][9] After four months of marriage Glusman filed for divorce in June 1973. Carroll filed a response, but did not contest the divorce, which was finalized two months later.[7][23] Glusman was reportedly physically abusive.[24]

On May 25, 1975, Carroll, then aged 39, married Robert DeLeon, the 24-year-old managing editor of Jet magazine.[5][9] They met when DeLeon assigned himself to a cover story on Carroll about her 1975 Oscar nomination for Claudine.[25] DeLeon had a child from a previous marriage. Carroll moved to Chicago where Jet was headquartered, but DeLeon soon quit his job so the couple relocated to Oakland.[25] Carroll was widowed when DeLeon was killed in a car crash on March 31, 1977.[7][26][27] Carroll's fourth and final marriage was to singer Vic Damone in 1987.[5][9] The union, which Carroll admitted was turbulent, had a legal separation in 1991, reconciliation, and divorce in 1996.[7][28][29]

Charitable work

Carroll was a founding member of the Celebrity Action Council, a volunteer group of celebrity women who served the women's outreach of the Los Angeles Mission, working with women in rehabilitation from problems with alcohol, drugs, or prostitution. She helped to form the group along with other female television personalities including Mary Frann, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, and Joan Van Ark.[30]

Illness, death, and memorial

Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis "stunned" her, because there was no family history of breast cancer, and she had always led a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of radiation therapy and had been clear for years after the diagnosis. She frequently spoke of the need for early detection and prevention of the disease.[9][31] She died from cancer at her home in West Hollywood, California on October 4, 2019, at the age of 84.[9][5] Carroll also had dementia at the time of her death, though actor Marc Copage, who played her character's son on Julia, said that she did not appear to show serious signs of cognitive decline as late as 2017.[32]

A memorial service was held in November 24, 2019, at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

Work

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Carmen Jones	Myrt	[3][5][9]
1959	Porgy and Bess	Clara	[3][5][9]
1961	Goodbye Again	Night Club Singer	[9]
	Paris Blues	Connie Lampson	[9]
1967	Hurry Sundown	Vivian Turlow	[5][9][7]
1968	The Split	Ellen "Ellie" Kennedy	[5][9]
1974	Claudine	Claudine	[1][5][9][3]
1982	Sister, Sister	Carolyne Lovejoy
1990	Mo' Better Blues	Jazz Club Singer	Uncredited
1991	The Five Heartbeats	Eleanor Potter	[7][12]
1992	Color Adjustment	Herself	[33][34]
1997	Eve's Bayou	Elzora	[12]
2013	Tyler Perry Presents Peeples	Nana Peeples	[35][36]
2016	The Masked Saint	Ms. Edna	(final film role)[12]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1954	Chance of a Lifetime	Herself	Four consecutive weeks as a contestant	[5][7]
	The Red Skelton Hour	Herself	1 episode	[7]
1955	General Electric Theater	Anna	Episode: "Winner by Decision"	[7]
1957–61	The Jack Paar Tonight Show	Herself	28 episodes	[7][6]: 152
1957–68	The Ed Sullivan Show	Herself	9 episodes	[7]
1959–62	The Garry Moore Show	Herself	8 episodes	[37]: 173–177
1960	Peter Gunn	Dina Wright	Episode: "Sing a Song of Murder"	[7][6]: 152
	The Man in the Moon		TV movie	[7][12]
1962	What's My Line?	Mystery Guest	Episode: Diahann Carroll	[7][38]
	Naked City	Ruby Jay	Episode: "A Horse Has a Big Head!"	[7][6]: 152
1963	The Eleventh Hour	Stella Young	Episode: "And God Created Vanity"	[7][6]: 152 [12]
1963–75	The Merv Griffin Show	Herself	2 episodes	[7]
1964	The Judy Garland Show	Herself	Episode 21	[7][6]: 152
1964–69	The Hollywood Palace	Herself	10 episodes	[7]
1965	The Dean Martin Show	Herself	1 episode (First Dean Martin Show)
1967–71	The Carol Burnett Show	Herself	2 episodes	[37]: 25, 31
1968–71	Julia	Julia Baker	86 episodes	[5][3][1][9]
1972–86	The Dick Cavett Show	Herself	3 episodes	[39][40][41]
1972	The New Bill Cosby Show	Herself	1 episode	[42]
1975	Death Scream	Betty May	TV movie	[7]
1976	The Diahann Carroll Show	Herself	4 episodes	[6]: 154
1977	The Love Boat	Roxy Blue	Episode: "Isaac the Groupie"	[7][12]
1977–78	Hollywood Squares	Herself	11 episodes	[7]
1978	Star Wars Holiday Special	Mermeia Holographic	TV special	[7]
1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Zeona Haley	Episode: Part VI (1939-1950)	[5][7][6]: 154
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Vivian	TV movie	[5][7][6]: 154
1982	Sister, Sister	Carolyne Lovejoy	TV movie	[3][7][6]: 154
1984–87	Dynasty	Dominique Deveraux	74 episodes	[3][20]
1985–86	The Colbys	Dominique Deveraux	7 episodes	[3][20]
1989	From the Dead of Night	Maggie	TV movie	[7][6]: 156
1989–93	A Different World	Marion Gilbert	9 episodes	[5][3]
1990	Murder in Black and White	Margo Stover	TV movie	[7][6]: 156
1991	Sunday in Paris	Vernetta Chase	TV short	[7]
1993	The Sinbad Show	Mrs. Winters	Episode: "My Daughter's Keeper"	[7]
1994	Burke's Law	Grace Gibson	Episode: "Who Killed the Beauty Queen?"	[7]
	Evening Shade	Ginger	Episode: "The Perfect Woman"	[7]
1994–95	Lonesome Dove: The Series	Ida Grayson	7 episodes	[3][7]
1994	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle	Lydia Bishop	TV movie	[7]
1995	Touched by an Angel	Grace Willis	Episode: "The Driver"	[7]
1998	The Sweetest Gift	Mrs. Wilson	TV movie	[7]
1999	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Sadie Delany	TV movie	[5][7][6]: 156
	Jackie's Back	Herself	TV movie	[7]
	Twice in a Lifetime	Jael	2 episodes	[7]
2000	The Courage to Love	Pouponne	TV movie	[7]
	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal	Betty Hemings	Miniseries	[7][6]: 156
	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Crow	Episode: "Aesop's Fables: A Whodunit Musical"	[43]
	Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story	Maria Cole	TV movie	[7]
2001	The Legend of Tarzan	Queen La	Voice, 3 episodes	[12][13]
2002	The Court	Justice DeSett	6 episodes	[7]
	Half & Half	Grandma Ruth Thorne	Episode: "The Big Thanks for Forgiving Episode"	[7]
2003	Strong Medicine	Eve Morton	Episode: "Love and Let Die"	[7]
2003–04	Soul Food	Aunt Ruthie	2 episodes	[12][7]
2004	Whoopi	Viveca Rae	Episode: "Mother's Little Helper"	[7]
2006–07	Grey's Anatomy	Jane Burke	5 episodes	[5][9][3][20]
2008	Back to You	Sandra Jenkins	Episode: "Hug & Tell"	[7]
	Over the River...Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom	Narrator	Documentary	[7][44]
2009–14	White Collar	June Ellington	25 episodes	[5][9][3][20]
2010	At Risk	Nana Mary	TV movie	[45]
	The Front	Nana Evelyn	TV movie	[45]
	Diahann Carroll: The Lady. The Music. The Legend	Herself	Filmed live in concert in Palm Springs, California	[46]
2010–11	Diary of a Single Mom	Jane Marco	7 episodes	[3]

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1954	House of Flowers	Ottillie (alias Violet)	Alvin Theatre, Broadway	[7]
1962	No Strings	Barbara Woodroff	54th Street Theatre, Broadway	[7]
1977	Same Time, Next Year	Doris	Huntington Hartford Theatre	[9]
1979	Black Broadway	Performer	Benefit concert
1983	Agnes of God	Dr. Martha Livingstone	Music Box Theatre, Broadway	[9][3][7][47]
1990	Love Letters	Melissa Gardner	Los Angeles Production	[48]
1995	Sunset Boulevard	Norma Desmond	Ford Centre, Toronto	[5][9][3][7]
1999	The Vagina Monologues	Performer	Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway
2004	Bubbling Brown Sugar	Performer	Theater of the Stars, Atlanta	[7]
	On Golden Pond	Ethel	Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.	[47][49][50]
2007	Both Sides Now	Performer	Feinstein's at the Regency, New York	[7]

Discography

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1974	Academy Awards	Best Actress	Claudine	Nominated	[1][5][9][3][20]
1963	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	Naked City	Nominated	[63][7][45]
1969		Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series	Julia	Nominated	[63]
1989		Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	A Different World	Nominated	[7][45]
2008		Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated	[45]
1999	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special	The Sweetest Gift	Nominated	[45]
1968	Golden Globe Awards	Best TV Star – Female	Julia	Won	[11]
1969		Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy		Nominated	[3][11]
1974		Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Claudine	Nominated	[11]
1963	Grammy Awards	Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female	No Strings	Nominated	[64]
1966		Best Recording for Children	Love Songs for Children: "A" You're Adorable	Nominated
1962	Tony Awards	Best Leading Actress in a Musical	No Strings	Won[lower-alpha 1]	[1][5][9][3][7][20]

• 2011: Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame[20]
• 1992: Women in Film Crystal Award.[65]
• 1998: Women in Film Lucy Award[65]
• 2000: NAACP Image Award — Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years[66]
• 2005: NAACP Image Award — Soul Food[66]
• 2016: Hollywood Legacy Award

Notes

References

Further reading

• Carroll, Diahann (2009). The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering, and Other Things I Learned Along the Way. New York: HarperPaperbacks. ISBN 9780060763275.
• Carroll, Diahann, with Ross Firestone (1987). Diahann: An Autobiography (1st Ivy Books ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0804101310.
• Plowden, Martha Ward (2002). Famous Firsts of Black Women. Illustrated by Ronald Jones (2nd ed.). Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBN 9781565541979.

External links

• Diahann Carroll discography at Discogs
• Diahann Carroll at the Internet Broadway Database
• Diahann Carroll at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Diahann Carroll at IMDb
• Diahann Carroll at Find a Grave
• Diahann Carroll. Makers: Women Who Make America. Archived from the original on December 15, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2013. Biographical video.
• Diahann Carroll at the TCM Movie Database
• Diahann Carroll at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• "Diahann Carroll". The HistoryMakers. Archived from the original on February 26, 2014.
• "Diahann Carroll". The National Visionary Leadership Project. Diahann Carroll's oral history video excerpts.

На других языках

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[de] Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll, eigentlich Carol Diahann Johnson (* 17. Juli 1935 in der Bronx, New York City, New York; † 4. Oktober 2019 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien), war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin.

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- [en] Diahann Carroll

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[es] Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (nacida como Carol Diahann Johnson; El Bronx, Nueva York, 17 de julio de 1935-Los Ángeles, California, 4 de octubre de 2019)[1] fue una actriz, modelo y cantante estadounidense, ganadora de un premio Tony y un Globo de Oro, nominada al premio Óscar en 1975.

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[ru] Дайан Кэрролл

Дайан Кэрролл (англ. Diahann Carroll [daɪˈæn ˈkæɹəl], урождённая Кэрол Дайан Джонсон (англ. Carol Diann Johnson); 17 июля 1935, Бронкс, Нью-Йорк, США — 4 октября 2019, Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния, США) — американская актриса и певица, чья карьера охватывает шесть десятилетий. Кэрролл появилась в ранних голливудских фильмах «Кармен Джонс» (1954) и «Порги и Бесс» (1959) с темнокожими актёрами на первом плане, а в 1962 году вошла в историю как первая чёрная женщина, ставшая лауреатом премии «Тони». Кэрролл с тех пор сыграла главную роль в ситкоме NBC «Джулия» (1968—1971), который стал первым телевизионным шоу, где афроамериканская женщина изображалась не стереотипно. С 1984 по 1987 год она играла Доминик Деверо в прайм-тайм мыльной опере ABC «Династия», тем самым став первой темнокожей актрисой в роли злодейки в прайм-тайм мыльной опере.

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