Joanna Shimkus

Joanna Shimkus

Рождение : 1943-10-30, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

История

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 attention of movie people on the lookout for new talent. She made her debut in 1964, in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour. 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 6 January 2022, aged 94. Source: Article "Joanna Shimkus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Профиль

Joanna Shimkus
Joanna Shimkus

Фильмы

Сидни
Self
Этот откровенный документальный фильм от продюсера Опры Уинфри посвящается легендарному Сидни Пуатье — культовому актеру, режиссеру и борцу за гражданские права. В фильме представлены интервью с Дензелом Вашингтоном, Спайком Ли, Барброй Стрейзанд и многими другими.
Сидни
Executive Producer
Этот откровенный документальный фильм от продюсера Опры Уинфри посвящается легендарному Сидни Пуатье — культовому актеру, режиссеру и борцу за гражданские права. В фильме представлены интервью с Дензелом Вашингтоном, Спайком Ли, Барброй Стрейзанд и многими другими.
A Time for Loving
Joan
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
Lisa Alren
A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love affairs.
The Virgin and the Gypsy
Yvette
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
The Uninvited
Anne
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the Côte d'Azur. They get closer during the long voyage and the man invites her to his marital home.
The Lost Man
Cathy Ellis
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Зовите меня 'О'!
Bénédicte
Автогонщик Франсуа Олен, по вине которого погибает его друг, бросает мир спорта и уходит в гангстеры. Его ценят за умение водить машину, но не любят и считают чужаком…
Boom!
Miss Black
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Zita
Annie
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Искатели приключений
Laetitia
Троицу отважных парижан одолевают сумасбродные мечты. Пролететь на самолете под Триумфальной аркой, например. Но даже такие устремления не останавливают их перед возможностью еще более рискованных приключений. Они отправляются к берегам Конго за …сокровищами. Но там их ждет роковое столкновение…
Кто вы, Полли Магу?
Сатирический фильм об индустрии моды, повествующий о юной и крайне популярной модели Полли Магу, которая стала героиней шоу «Кто вы?» и привлекла толпы преследующих ее поклонников, в том числе принца.
Six in Paris
Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Montparnasse et Levallois
Monica
Woman sends the wrong letter to two men in a feisty love triangle tale.
All About Loving
Sophie
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.