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[Bentley. HARRIS!]

Do the younger girls here know how iconic she is



THIS ... didn't happen before her

you didn't see THIS

[Bentley. HARRIS!]

you gorls couldn't SIT in front of a white woman in entertainment before this woman.

you either had to be singing or dancing. you couldn't just BE elegant and poised before THIS



I'm having to deep breathe... I really loved Diahann and her work

[Bentley. HARRIS!]

Actress Diahann Carroll was born July 17, 1935 in the Bronx, New York but grew up in Harlem.  She received her education and her theatre training at Manhattan's School of Performing Arts.

At the age of 19, Carroll received her first film role when she was cast as a supporting actress in the 1954 film Carmen Jones which starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.  After her film debut Carroll starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers.  In 1959 she returned to film in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess where she performed with an all-star cast that included Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., and Pearl Mae Bailey.

In 1962 Carroll made history when she became the first African American woman to receive a Tony Award for best actress.  She was recognized for her role as Barbara Woodruff in the musical No Strings.  Another historical moment occurred when Carroll won the lead role for Julia in 1968, becoming the first African American actress to star in her own television series as someone other than a domestic worker.  The show also broke ground by portraying Carroll as a single parent. She played a recently widowed nurse who raised her son alone.  In 1968 Carroll won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress in a Television Series" for her work in Julia.  One year later she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series.

In 1974 Carroll was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for best actress for her starring role in the film Claudine.  Carroll played a struggling domestic worker single mother of six trying to make ends meet when she falls in love with a garbage collector portrayed by James Earl Jones.

During the 1980s Carroll changed roles again and joined the cast of the primetime soap opera Dynasty where she played a wealthy socialite.  Carroll continues to perform and most recently made guest appearances on Grey's Anatomy.

Carroll now battles breast cancer and recently has become an important advocate for breast cancer awareness.  In 2001 she made news by allowing her breast cancer surgery to be filmed.

[Bentley. HARRIS!]

Another historical moment occurred when Carroll won the lead role for Julia in 1968, becoming the first African American actress to star in her own television series as someone other than a domestic worker.

I really need Dory to log on... I don't think anyone else is quite GRASPING who this woman is and what she did

[I. Hate. Monica.]

Baph get back in here FAGGOT and apologize for that DISGUSTING comparison 

[Vonc2002]

This fckn stunning ass bitch 

[Vonc2002]

Do the younger girls here know how iconic she is



THIS ... didn't happen before her

you didn't see THIS

All these old bitches were kinda everything

[RAY7]

This fckn stunning ass bitch

stunning

[Vonc2002]

Sumn about her always did remind me of Claire huxtable/phylicia Rashad tho. I think it was the grace and the classy kinda beauty both of them have

[Lane Bryant Jumpsuit]

Oh no

[Bentley. HARRIS!]

This fckn stunning ass bitch

[BAPHOMET.]

She kinda looked like Diana Ross. Rip queen

no tf she didn't

[Vonc2002]

Was that supposed to prove something 

[Young]

She kinda looked like Diana Ross. Rip queen

no tf she didn't

Wow I see it

Two beautiful, STUNNING, REGAL Queens

[I. Hate. Monica.]

Diana literally looks like a fckin ROACH