Diahann Carroll Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Diahann Carroll Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Diahann Carroll (/daɪˈæn/; born Carol Diann Johnson; July , â€"

October , ) 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 () and Porgy and Bess ().

In , Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for an African

American woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. In

she starred in Claudine alongside James Earl Jones for which she

received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.Her debut in

Julia, the first series on American television to star a Black woman

in a non-stereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and

the medium. In the s, 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 the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In a Television

Series in . She died on October , after a battle with breast

cancer.Carol Diahann Johnson was born in the Bronx, New York City, on

July , , to John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel (Faulk), a

nurse.: While Carroll was still an infant, the family moved to Harlem,

where she grew up.: She attended Music and Art High School, 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 ,

she was modeling for Ebony. "She also began entering television

contests, including Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, under the name

Diahann Carroll.": After graduating from high school, she attended New

York University, where she majored in sociology,: "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."
Diahann Carroll Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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