The iconic entertainer Diahann Carroll is dead. She was 84 years of age.
After a long battle with breast cancer, she died early Friday morning.
It writes CNN on Friday.
She has, in the course of his career distinguished himself as a singer and actor. She has released countless albums and had roles in theatre, on the small screen and on the big screen.
She was the first african-american woman who won the prestigious theater prize ‘Tony’ for best actress in the musical ‘No Strings’ in 1962. In the role as Claudine in the movie of the same name, scored her a Oscar nomination.
Diahann Carroll was tired of always seeing minorities çankaya escort play roles where they are supposed to be ‘nice people’.
She uttered, therefore, a desire to do something else, when she got the role as the antagonist ‘Dominique Deveraux’ in Dollars.
– I will be the first black bitch, she said in a TV interview in 1984.
Something she even seems to have accomplished its role in u.s. Dollars.
– I have never played a role that is so unsympathetic. And I am very happy.
In recent times you will be able to be cast on her in the series White Collar, where she plays June, or in Grey’s anatomy, where she plays Jane Burke.
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Her last husband, singer Vic Damone, died last year.
