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Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone ( / məˈɡlɒklɪn ləvˈroʊni / mə-GLOK-lin ləv-ROH-nee; née McLaughlin; born August 7, 1999) [ 6] is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles and is the world record holder in that event. She has won gold in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2022 World ...
Sidney Poitier. Sidney Poitier KBE ( / ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [ 1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [ 2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award ...
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 ...
He was the Bruins' star player on the latter two championship teams. Wicks was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four in 1970, the Helms National Co-Player of the Year (1970), and the USBWA and Sporting News Player of the Year (1971), and was a consensus All-American in 1970 and 1971.
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 performances in film include The Defiant Ones (1958), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Paris Blues (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), A Patch of Blue (1965), To Sir ...
At just 15 years old, Saniyya Sidney is already making a splash: She recently starred as Venus Williams in the biopic "King Richard" and later in 2022 will play Sasha Obama in the Showtime series ...
The ninth season of the reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York aired on VH1 from November 26, 2018 until March 18, 2019. The season was primarily filmed in New York City, New York. It is executively produced by Mona Scott-Young, Stephanie Gayle and Treiva Williams for Monami Entertainment, Toby Barraud, Stefan Springman, David ...
The star of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" died Thursday at 94. Sidney Poitier celebrated by Denzel, Oprah, Whoopi and more following his death: 'We lost an elegant king today' [Video] Skip to ...