Highest rated movie: Claudine (1974)
Lowest rated movie: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
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Movies starring Diahann Carroll have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
Claudine - released in 1974 - is Diahann Carroll's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 70 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Diahann Carroll is The Star Wars Holiday Special - released in 1978 - with a score of 24% based on 421 reviews.
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 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 nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of an interracial diva in the primetime 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 nomination for Best Actress for the 1974 film Claudine. She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
Diahann Carroll has acted in films with Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones and Brock Peters.
Diahann Carroll has worked with these film directors: Otto Preminger, Robert Townsend, Martin Ritt and Stuart Margolin.
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