I decided to do today’s Day Thread in tribute of the wonderful Diahann Carrol, who died earlier this month.
Diahann Carroll was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature Black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (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 non-stereotypical role, was a major milestone. In the 1980s, she played the role of Dominique Deveraux in the prime time 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 Best Actress nomination for the film Claudine (1974). She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
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