Joanna Shimkus
Actor
- Born
- October 30, 1943 (age 82) · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
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She made her debut in 1964 in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour. (She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's short "Montparnasse-Levallois," his contribution to the anthology film Six in Paris; it was shot in December 1963, but the film was not released until 1965.) She was then noticed by film director Robert Enrico, who selected her to appear in three of his films; Les aventuriers (1967), opposite Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, Tante Zita (1968), and Ho! (1968).
She appeared in Joseph Losey's film Boom! (1968), opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and The Lost Man (1969), opposite Sidney Poitier. Her film career continued until the early 1970s, including roles in L'Invitée (1969), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971), and A Time for Loving (1972).
Shimkus married Sidney Poitier in 1976, and they have two daughters: Anika and Sydney Tamiia, who is also an actress. Shimkus has three grandchildren; two from Anika and one from Sydney Tamiia. Sidney Poitier died on January 6, 2022, aged 94.
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Known for
The Last Adventure
April 12, 1967
Woman in Chains
November 20, 1968
Sidney
September 10, 2022
Ho !
November 4, 1968
Boom!
May 26, 1968
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
October 21, 1966
Six in Paris
May 19, 1965
All About Loving
December 28, 1964
Zita
January 12, 1968
The Uninvited
October 31, 1969
The Virgin and the Gypsy
June 1, 1970
The Lost Man
July 11, 1969
Acting18
- 2025A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard as Self
- 2023Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood as Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife
- 2022Sidney as Self
- 1972A Time for Loving as Joan
- 1971The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker as Lisa Alren
- 1970The Virgin and the Gypsy as Yvette
- 1969The Uninvited as Anne
- 1969The Lost Man as Cathy Ellis
- 1968Woman in Chains as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
- 1968