Diahann Carroll

Carroll also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. She studied at Brandeis University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1974 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. They have three daughters. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman provided Carroll's singing voice. Daly was married to actor/director Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990.

and Pearl Bailey. She won her Tony for Gypsy. In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. Tyne Daly is perhaps best known for her performances on the television series Cagney & Lacey and Judging Amy. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. Her grandfather was former Chief Justice of the United States and Governor of California Earl Warren. Her first film role was in Carmen Jones in 1954, but her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968. She is the daughter of actor James Daly and the sister of actor Timothy Daly.

Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams. Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American Tony and Emmy Award winning actress. Diahann Carroll (born July 15, 1935) is an American actress and singer. No Strings (1962) in the part of Barbara Woodruff. House of Flowers (1954) in the part of Ottilie.