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Joanna Shimkus
Acting
30 Oct 1943 (82 years)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Biography
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. She made her debut in 1964 in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour. (She ...
Also Known As
Joanna Schimkus, Johanna Shimkus
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Joanna Shimkus's Movies
69%
The Last Adventure
12 Apr 1967
69%
Woman in Chains
20 Nov 1968
74%
Sidney
10 Sept 2022
59%
Boom!
26 May 1968
64%
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
21 Oct 1966
63%
Ho !
04 Nov 1968
65%
Six in Paris
19 May 1965
44%
All About Loving
28 Dec 1964
48%
Zita
12 Jan 1968
60%
The Uninvited
31 Oct 1969
21%
The Virgin and the Gypsy
01 Jun 1970
32%
The Lost Man
11 Jul 1969
30%
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
19 Aug 1971
47%
A Time for Loving
01 Apr 1972
40%
Montparnasse et Levallois
07 Oct 1965
60%
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
04 Jun 2025
0%
Idoli controluce
12 Nov 1965
