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7 2022 1049 am. They stayed together for the remainder of his life.

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February 20 1927 January 6 2022 was a Bahamian-American actor film director activist and ambassador.

. In 1964 he was the first black person and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Poitier was 44 years old at the time. A native of Cat Island the Bahamas although born two months prematurely in Miami during a visit by his parents Poitier grew up in poverty as the son of farmers Evelyn nee Outten and Reginald James Poitier who also drove a cab.

Poitier is survived by six children eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In the late 1940s he joined the American Negro Theater in Harlem seeking a stage career. Poitier KBE ˈ p w ɑː t i eɪ.

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He received his award for playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field 1963 at The 36th Annual Academy Awards 1964. With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Poitier is survived by his wife Joanna Shimkus a retired actress from Canada.

Sidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar has died. Two Anika and Sydney Tamiaa with Shimkus. Jill and I were saddened to learn of.

Poitier moved to New York at age 16 to pursue a career in acting. Poitier married twice the first time to Juanita Hardy from 1960 to 1965. After a nine-year affair with actor and singer Diahann Caroll Poitier married Canadian actor Joanna Shimkus in 1976.

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