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Julie Robinson Belafonte (September 14, 1928 – March 9, 2024) was an American dancer, actress and costume designer. She was the second wife of Harry Belafonte . She died on March 9, 2024, at the age of 95.
On March 8, 1957, Belafonte married his second wife Julie Robinson (1928–2024), a dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company who was of Jewish descent. [138] They had two children: Gina and David. [139] After 47 years of marriage, [140] Belafonte and Robinson divorced in 2004.
Belafonte was born on September 8, 1961, at Mount Sinai Hospital [2] in New York City, New York, to Harry Belafonte and his then-wife Julie Robinson Belafonte. [1] As a young child, she visited Africa as well as the West Indies. [3] At age six, Gina Belafonte attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City alongside her brother David. [4]
Harry Belafonte -- the legendary actor, producer, activist and multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter known as the "Calypso King" -- has died of congestive heart failure at his home in New York ...
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Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96. He was the first Black man to win an Emmy and a Tony. Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights activist, dies at 96
Poitier and Belafonte initially hired Joseph Sargent as the director of the film. However, Poitier fired him after a few days of shooting, noting that Sargent's approach lacked "important ethnic qualities" that would allow "black people and minorities in general to find in Buck and the Preacher a certain substance, a certain nourishment, a ...
Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart ...