Personal Info
Carol Diahann Johnson
دیان کارول
Diahann Carroll
Acting
Biography
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings.
Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she playe…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Sidney
as Self (archive footage)
How It Feels to Be Free
as Self (archival footage)
The Masked Saint
as Ms. Edna
Light Girls
as Self
Peeples
as Nana Peeples
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
Sing Your Song
as Self
At Risk
as Nana
The Front
as Nana
Diary of a Single Mom
as Therapist
TV Shows
White Collar
as June · 25 ep.
Back to You
as Sandra Jenkins · 1 ep.
Grey's Anatomy
as Jane Burke · 5 ep.
Whoopi
as Viveca Rae · 1 ep.
Half & Half
as Grandma Ruth Thorne · 1 ep.
The Court
6 ep.
The Legend of Tarzan
as Queen La (voice) · 3 ep.
Strong Medicine
as Eve Morton · 1 ep.
Soul Food
as Aunt Ruthie · 2 ep.
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
as Betty Hemings · 2 ep.
