• Name: Sidney Poitier
  
• Height: 6' 2"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 20, 1927
  
• Birth Place: Miami, Florida, USA
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Trained for the stage with Paul Mann and Lloyd Richards.
  
• Husband/Wife: Joanna Shimkus (actress; married on January 23, 1976; met in Paris while costarring in The Lost Man in 1969), Juanita Hardy (dancer; married on April 29, 1950; divorced in 1965)
  
• Relationship: Diahann Carroll (actress, singer; broke up)
  
• Father: Reginald James Poitier (tomato farmer)
  
• Mother: Evelyn Poitier (née Qutten; tomato farmer)
  
• Brother: Cyril Poitier (born in 1911; died November 13, 1991, of cancer)
  
• Daughter: Sydney Tamiia Poitier (actress; born on September 15, 1973), Anika (actress; born in 1972), Gina (actress), Sherri (born in 1953), Pamela (born in 1952), Beverly (born in 1951)
  

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• 'Things have changed, certainly. If you came to the venue tonight and saw the array of African-American actors, you'd know things had changed. Enough becomes the key word. ''
• “We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
• “If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”

• Academy Awards: Honorary Award (2002)
• Image Awards: Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special, THE SIMPLE LIFE OF NOAH DEARBORN (2000)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Life Achievement Award (2000)
• American Film Institute: Life Achievement Award (1992)
• Golden Globe Awards: Cecil B. DeMille Award (1982)
• Fotogramas de Plata: Best Foreign Performer (1969)
• Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorite - Male (1969)
• San Sebastián International Film Festival: Best Actor, FOR LOVE OF IVY (1968)
• Golden Apple Awards: Golden Apple - Male Star of the Year (1967)
• Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1964)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1964)
• Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actor, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role-Drama, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963)
• BAFTA Awards: Best Foreign Actor, THE DEFIANT ONES (1959)
• Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actor, THE DEFIANT ONES (1958)

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