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Sidney Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay;
February 20, 1927 –
January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964...
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Poitier is a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Damion Poitier (born 1976),
American actor Jane
Poitier (1736–1786),
British singer and dancer...
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Tamiia Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay; born
November 15, 1973) is an American-Canadian
television and film actress. Born in Los Angeles,
Poitier is the...
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Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) was an
actor and director. He was best
known for his
groundbreaking and
trailblazing work in the 1950s and 1960s. His breakthrough...
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Damion Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtieɪ/ PWAH-tee-ay; born June 4, 1976) is an
American actor and stuntman, best
known for his role as
Chains in
Payday 2. He made...
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Poitiers is a city on the
river Clain in west-central France. It is a commune, the
capital of the
Vienne department and the
historical center of Poitou...
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Canadian film actress. She is the
widow of
actor Sidney Poitier and
mother of
actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
Joanna Marie Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
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Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American
actor known for his
appearances on the
stage and screen. He
became the
first Black actor to win the
Academy Award...
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produced by
Walter Mirisch, and
starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It
tells the
story of
Virgil Tibbs (
Poitier), a
Black police detective from Philadelphia...
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originally credited as
Nathan E. Douglas. It
stars Tony
Curtis and
Sidney Poitier as two
escaped prisoners, one
white and one black, who are
shackled together...
