Juliette Binoche

She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. Carroll also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. In 2000 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on the novel by Joanne Harris. In 1974 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. In 1996 her role as Hana, a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during WWII, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman provided Carroll's singing voice.

Her performance brought much praise and the offer of leading roles including in Three Colors: Blue, part 1 of Krzysztof Kieslowski's highly acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won the 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. During her career, in addition to winning, she has been nominated five times for the Cesar Award for Best Actress. and Pearl Bailey. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 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. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and earned extra cash as a painter's model. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle. 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.

Born to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to Paris to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. 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. Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. Diahann Carroll (born July 15, 1935) is an American actress and singer. 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. No Strings (1962) in the part of Barbara Woodruff. 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. House of Flowers (1954) in the part of Ottilie.

1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof). 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat.

2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre. 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat.

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat. 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. 1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera. 1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue.

1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. 1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - European Film Award - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.

1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.