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==Broadway credits== ==Broadway credits==

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Diahann Carroll, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955

Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American actress and singer. Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams.

Her first film assignment was a supporting role in Carmen Jones in 1954, playing the "good girl" Harry Belafonte ditches for the sultry Carmen. Much later, her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role.

In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman dubbed Carroll's singing voice.

In 1974 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. Carroll commented at the time that the Aaron Spelling soaper splurged to dress her, whereas the wardrobe budget for Julia had been fifty dollars for her nurse's uniform. She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother.

Carroll starred in the Los Angeles company of the Broadway musical hit Sunset Boulevard, playing the crazed silent movie star "Norma Desmond."

Carroll is a breast cancer survivor.

Broadway credits

Filmography

TV Work

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