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Joanna Marie Shimkus [1] was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Shimkus, [4] a Jewish father of Lithuanian descent, [5] and Marie Petrie, [4] a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. [6] Her father worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. [7] She attended a convent school [8] and was brought up in Montreal. [9]
Related: Sidney Poitier's Incredible Life and Career in Photos. ... Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus Poitier in 1969's 'The Lost Man' Sidney was really an amazing person, and the most interesting ...
Former US Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier), after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Revolutionary Movement, is wounded as he pulls a payroll heist to help imprisoned brothers, and has to hide from the police. Social worker Cathy Ellis (Joanna Shimkus) falls in love with Higgs while helping him elude capture.
On January 23, 1976, he married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress who starred with Poitier in The Lost Man in 1969, and they remained married until his death. Poitier had four daughters with his first wife: Beverly, [112] [113] Pamela, [114] Sherri, [115] and Gina. [116] He had two daughters with his second wife: Anika [117] and Sydney Tamiia ...
Poitier married actress Joanna Shimkus, his second wife, in the mid-1970s. He had six daughters with his two wives and wrote three books - "This Life" (1980), "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual ...
Tributes have been paid to Hollywood star Sidney Poitier after his death at the age of 94. ... to Juanita Hardy between 1950 and 1965 and to Joanna Shimkus in 1976, and had six children. Show ...
Born in Los Angeles in 1973 or 1974, [1] Poitier is the daughter of Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier and Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus. [2] Her mother is of Lithuanian Jewish [3] and Irish Catholic descent. [4] She has an older sister, Anika. She also has four older half-sisters, Beverly, Pamela, Sherri, and Gina, from her father's ...
The acclaimed actor Sidney Poitier died at the age of 94. Speaking to Oprah in 2000, Poitier discussed his film career, experiencing racism, and the "sacredness" of death.