Diahann Carroll

Carroll also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother. Before that, the last movie she had appeared in had been in the 1960s. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. The last movie she appeared in was the 1991 film Night of the Warrior, starring her son, Lorenzo Lamas. In 1974 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. She has two other children from other marriages. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman provided Carroll's singing voice. Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas got divorced in 1960, and Dahl later remarried.

and Pearl Bailey. She also founded her own business, Arlene Dahl Enterprises, which marketed lingerie and cosmetics. 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. Dahl would go on to work as a beauty columnist and as a writer. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. Shortly after giving birth to her son, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her career as an actress, although she still appeared in movies and on television occassionally. 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. In 1958 Dahl and Lamas had their only son, Lorenzo Lamas (who also grew up to become an actor).

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. A few years later she and Barker got divorced, and Dahl would go on to marry another Hollywood actor, Fernando Lamas. Diahann Carroll (born July 15, 1935) is an American actress and singer. Dahl met the famous movie star Lex Barker in the early 1950s, and in 1952, Dahl and Barker got married. No Strings (1962) in the part of Barbara Woodruff. Some of her best films include: Reign of Terror (1949), Three Little Words (1950), Woman's World (1954), Slightly Scarlet (1956), and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). House of Flowers (1954) in the part of Ottilie. She began her acting career in 1947, at the age of 19. Her acting career gradually picked up steam, and she reached the peak of her popularity and success in the 1950s.

After graduating from high school in 1946, she held various jobs, including working as a model for a brief period. Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is of Norwegian descent. Arlene Dahl (born August 11, 1928) is an American movie starlet who was most famous during the 1950s.