Joanna Shimkus
Birthday
1943/10/30 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also know as
Joanna Schimkus, Johanna Shimkus
Biography
Joanna Shimkus Poitier (born 30 October 1943) is a Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier, and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier. Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Shimkus, a Lithuanian-Jew and Marie Petrie, a Catholic of Irish descent. Her father worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. She attended a convent school and was brought up in Montreal, Quebec. She went to Paris at age nineteen, where she worked as a fashion model and soon attracted the at...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
L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard
as ---
(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 ---
(1965) Dim Dam Dom
as Self