Sidney PoitierSidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927) is an American actor. He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on Cat Island in the Bahamas. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first African-American actor to win this award. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002. His other films include:
He acted in the first run of "Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway in 1959, and in its Hollywood adaptation in 1961. In addition to authoring This Life (1980) and The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000), Poitier has also served as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan since April of 1997. Awards and recognition
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In addition to authoring This Life (1980) and The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000), Poitier has also served as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan since April of 1997. He also played actor Peter Sellers in the TV movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. He acted in the first run of "Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway in 1959, and in its Hollywood adaptation in 1961. Rush also starred in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. His other films include:. Rush's career continues at an amazingly fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first African-American actor to win this award. In 1998 he appeared in three major films -- Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos (and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor). He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on Cat Island in the Bahamas. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927) is an American actor. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. 1958: Foreign: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. 1958: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones. Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. 1963: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field. While in college, he roomed with Mel Gibson. 1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. 1992: Sidney Poitier. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. 1995: Sidney Poitier. Geoffrey Rush (born July 6, 1951) is an Australian actor. 2000: Sidney Poitier, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn. 2001: Sidney Poitier. Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man. Grammy Awards of 2001
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a film about an inter-racial romance and a white liberal's reaction to it. His on-screen singing voice was provided by opera singer Robert McFerrin, father of Bobby McFerrin. Porgy and Bess, based on the famous opera, in the title role of Porgy along side Dorothy Dandridge as Bess. The Defiant Ones, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Actor in 1958. |