Joanna Shimkus
Birthday
1943/10/30 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also know as
Joanna Schimkus, Johanna Shimkus
Biography
Joanna Marie Shimkus (born 30 October 1943) is a 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, to Joseph Shimkus, a Jewish father of Lithuanian descent, and Marie Petrie, a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. Her father worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. She attended a convent school and was brought up in Montreal. She made her debut in 1964 in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour. (She ...Read more
Acting
(1967) The Last Adventure
as Laetitia
(1970) The Virgin and the Gypsy
as Yvette
(1968) Ho !
as Bénédicte
(1968) Boom!
as Miss Black
(1969) The Lost Man
as Cathy Ellis
(1971) The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
as Lisa Alren
(1968) Zita
as Annie
(1969) The Uninvited
as Anne
(1965) Montparnasse et Levallois
as Monica
(2022) Sidney
as Self
(2025) A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
as Self
(1972) A Time for Loving
as Joan
(1965) Six in Paris
as Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
(1964) All About Loving
as Sophie
(1966) Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as ---
(1968) Woman in Chains
as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
(1965) Idoli controluce
as Alexandra
(1965) Dim Dam Dom
as Self