Sidney L. Poitier is a Bahamian-American retired actor, film director, activist, and ambassador born on February 20, 1927. A native of Cat Island, the Bahamas Poitier grew up in poverty as the so farmers Evelyn and Reginald James Poitier, who also drove a cab. He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing tendency...
What happened to Sidney Poitier’s first wife Juanita Hardy?
He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing tendency toward delinquency. In the U.S., he experienced the racial chasm that divides the country, a great shock to a boy coming from a society with a majority of African descent. He married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian former actress, on January 23, 1976, and they...