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    Address 7005 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 04/03/1990

About
Diahann Carroll
Born:
1935-07-17,
Bronx,
New York,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
African American
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll is an American actress and singer.

Having appeared some of the earliest major studio films to feature African-American casts such as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, she starred in 1968’s Julia, one of the first series on American television to star an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Later she created the role of Dominique Deveraux on the popular prime time soap opera, Dynasty.

She is the recipient of numerous stage and screen awards and nominations. Carroll has been married four times and became the mother of a daughter in 1960. She is a breast cancer survivor and activist.

Carroll was born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, to John Johnson and Mabel Faulk. Her family moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City when she was an infant. She attended Music & Art High School, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams.

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