
Diahann Carroll
Department: 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 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.
Known For

Porgy and Bess
1959

Motown 40: The Music is Forever
1998

The Split
1968

Paris Blues
1961

The Five Heartbeats
1991

Eve's Bayou
1997

The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968

The Front
2010

At Risk
2010

The Beatles Forever
1977

Carmen Jones
1954

The Courage to Love
2000

Peeples
2013

Claudine
1974

Sing Your Song
2012

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988

Hurry Sundown
1967

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994

The Sweetest Gift
1998

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970

Light Girls
2015

Night of 100 Stars II
1985

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999

The Masked Saint
2016

The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978

Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986

Goodbye Again
1961

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000

Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
1968

Sister, Sister
1982

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004

From the Dead of Night
1989

The Best of Broadway
1985

Murder in Black and White
1990

Sunday in Paris
1991

Color Adjustment
1992

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Death Scream
1975

Diary of a Single Mom
2009

How It Feels to Be Free
2021

Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
1976

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Jackie's Back!
1999

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998

Starfest: The Stars Salute Public Television 1983
1983

The Strolling '20s
1966

Sidney
2022

One More Time
1974

A Different World
1987

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Half & Half
2002

The Sonny and Cher Show
1976

The Love Boat
1977

Touched by an Angel
1994

The Legend of Tarzan
2001

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Dynasty
1981

Naked City
1958

Soul Food
2000

The Colbys
1985

Twice in a Lifetime
1999

Julia
1968

Intimate Portrait
1993

Peter Gunn
1958

The Big Show
1980

Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
1953

The Flip Wilson Show
1970

Roots: The Next Generations
1979

ABC Stage 67
1966

The Court
2002

The Steve Allen Show
1956

White Collar
2009

The Oscars
1953

Chance Of A Lifetime
1952

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Judy Garland Show
1963

The Bob Hope Show
1950

Reading Rainbow
1983

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

What's My Line?
1950

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995

The Julie Andrews Hour
1972

DuPont Show of the Month
1957

Burke's Law
1994

The Red Skelton Show
1951

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

The Hollywood Palace
1964

Not Only... But Also
1964

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Strong Medicine
2000

Back to You
2007

Dinah!
1974

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Ellen
1994

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Whoopi
2003

Great Performances
1971

The Danny Kaye Show
1963

The Bell Telephone Hour
1959

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956