Diahann Carroll
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 played the role of an interracial diva in the primetime 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 1968. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the 1974 film Claudine. She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
109 acting credits
Acting · 109
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
Golden Globe Awards
1944
White Collar
2009
Dynasty
1981
Strong Medicine
2000
Great Performances
1971
Naked City
1958
Touched by an Angel
1994
Tony Awards
1956
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Ellen
1994
What's My Line?
1950
A Different World
1987
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Peter Gunn
1958
Dinah!
1974
The Steve Allen Show
1956
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Half & Half
2002
Twice in a Lifetime
1999
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Burke's Law
1994
The Legend of Tarzan
2001
ABC Stage 67
1966
The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
Julia
1968
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
The Colbys
1985
Whoopi
2003
Soul Food
2000
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Back to You
2007
The Julie Andrews Hour
1972
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
The Court
2002
The Judy Garland Show
1963
The Big Show
1980
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000
Eve's Bayou
1997
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Claudine
1974
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988
Goodbye Again
1961
At Risk
2010
The Masked Saint
2016
Sidney
2022
The Five Heartbeats
1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994
Paris Blues
1961
Hurry Sundown
1967
Not Only... But Also
1964
The Front
2010
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000
Porgy and Bess
1959
The Split
1968
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
Carmen Jones
1954
Jackie's Back!
1999
Death Scream
1975
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
The Sweetest Gift
1998
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986
Peeples
2013
From the Dead of Night
1989
Murder in Black and White
1990
Light Girls
2015
The Courage to Love
2000
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
1953
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995
Color Adjustment
1992
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
Sunday in Paris
1991
Diary of a Single Mom
2009
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
The Strolling '20s
1966
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
1976
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
Sister, Sister
1982
Chance Of A Lifetime
1952
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
The Beatles Forever
1977
Sing Your Song
2012
One More Time
1974
Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1983
Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
1968
The Best of Broadway
1985