Diahann Carroll has died at the age of 84.
Before Diahann Carroll became the first African American woman with her own primetime television series, black actresses on television were invariably cast as domestic workers. Carroll, who passed away today in Los Angeles at the age of 84, starred in NBC’s, portraying a single mother who was also an elegant professional woman.
Carroll was born in the Bronx in 1935. While still a teenager, she modeled and entered singing contests. She won, a television talent competition, for three weeks running, and the prize was a thousand dollars a week plus an engagement at the Latin Quarter, the Manhattan nightclub. , and in the movies, with roles in works that included
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