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Diahann Carroll

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In the 1960s she was engaged to Sidney Poitier.

Is a breast cancer survivor.

Won first prize on TV's "Chance of a Lifetime" (1952).

Won a Tony for "No Strings".

She and actor Billy Dee Williams were high school classmates at The New York City High School of the Performing Arts, the school that was featured on the popular TV series "Fame" (1982).

In the early 1970s, engaged to TV interviewer David Frost.

Was a model for Ebony Fashion Fair.

Mother of Suzanne Kay Bamford, media journalist (b. 9 September 1960).

Is a honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Won Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "No Strings," in a tie with Anna Maria Alberghetti for "Carnival."

Was supposed to have returned to "Dynasty" (1981) for Season 10 in 1989, but the show was canceled after Season 9.

Is one of only 7 African-American actresses to receive the Best Actress Oscar nomination. The others in chronological order are: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry.

Mother-in-law of Mark Bamford.

Best known by the public for her starring role as the title character in "Julia" (1968).

Personal Quotes

[on filming Hurry Sundown (1967) in St. Francisville, LA, home of the Ku Klux Klan, amid death threats to the cast and crew] You can cut the hostility here with a knife. I'm not a fighter. I usually smile and then go into my room and cry my eyes out. But down here, the terror has killed my taste for going anywhere.

I'm always getting involved in the wrong relationship. I do that very well.

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Where Are They Now

(July 2004) Rehearsing to appear in "On Golden Pond" opposite James Earl Jones, in Washington, D.C.

(1986) Release of her autobiography, "Diahann".

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