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Born in Los Angeles, Poitier is the daughter of American actor Sidney Poitier and Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus. When Sidney won his Best Actor Oscar for He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing tendency toward delinquency. He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: While trying to sing with some fellow actors in Off-Broadway theatre he found he was tone deaf. In 1963, he became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his role as Homer Smith in First black actor to place autograph, hand, and footprints in the cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre (June 23, 1967). Hauled of to the local nick, he encounters Rod Steiger's bigoted sheriff. Longtime friends with fellow actor and activist He served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York. After he was threatened with shock therapy treatments, he admitted to lying about his age.

When he came to New York from the Caribbean to become an actor, he was so impoverished at first that he slept in the bus station. Poitier was 44 years old at the time. He tied the knot for the first time with Juanita Hardy on April 29, 1950. America benefited from their effort. Received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award. Sits on USC School of Cinema-Television's Board of Councilors. Became a father for the first time at age 25 when his first wife Juanita Hardy gave birth to their daughter As an honorary knight, he is not entitled to call himself or to be known as "Sir Sidney Poitier" but he may use the postnomials (KBE or K.B.E.) And, in many ways, the world has also benefited from their effort.

Has four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. His performance as Detective Virgil Tibbs in

His ethnicity is Afro-Bahamian.In spite of being born in Miami, he grew up back in the Bahamas, then a British Crown colony.

if he so chooses. Became a father for the fifth time at age 45 when his partner, later second wife, After a delinquency-filled youth and a short stint in the U.S. Army, Poitier moved to New York to pursue an acting career. Has an honorary doctorate degree from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Sidney has been married twice in his life.

Became a father for the second time at age 27 when his first wife Juanita Hardy gave birth to their daughter [from Sidney Poitier's speech about Widmark at the D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement] The generosity of spirit that lights his way will also warm your heart... Here are the films and moments that define his career, from inspirational dramas to ‘Stir Crazy’ to that incredible Oscar speech.

Sidney has been married twice in his life. Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "A Raisin in the Sun", a role that he recreated in the film version of the same name, There's murder afoot in the deep south, and Poitier's Virgil Tibbs is a solitary stranger, innocently courting hassle by being black.

And I benefited from their effort. To get his first major role in 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. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. During the early 1980s, a man named David Hampton conned his way into the homes of several wealthy and prominent New Yorkers (including a dean at Columbia University) by falsely claiming to be Poitier's son. Early life and family. In 1964 Poitier became the first black male and Afro-Bahamian actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, having been nominated for the award twice.He is the oldest living and earliest surviving Best Actor Academy Award winner. In September 2019, he was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

The industry benefited from their effort. He gave an amazing performance in films like “Edge of the City”, “The Defiant Ones”, “Porgy and Bess” and so on for which he was nominated for multiple awards.Poitier’s fame and popularity rose to a peak when his breakthrough portrayal of Homer Smith in “Lilies of the Field” earned him “Academy Award for Best Actor”, “Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama” and “Silver Bear for Best Actor”.Recently, the death rumor of Sidney had covered the Facebook walls with sad and grieving comments/messages. Academy Award winner for the Best Actor for his role in “Lilies of the Field” is not only an actor but also a director, author and diplomat.He is the first African-American actor to win Oscar. After several weeks of Army-mandated therapy sessions, he was discharged from the Army. Along with his name uttered in the lyrics, a photograph of Poitier is held by Was named #22 greatest actor on the 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute. Became a father for the third time at age 29 when his first wife Juanita Hardy gave birth to their daughter Became a father for the sixth time at age 46 when his partner, later second wife, He was a trailblazer who made decency look heroic.