Actor
Joanna Shimkus
October 30, 1943 · 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.
Often works with
Paul Crauchet
4 titles together
The Last Adventure, Ho !, Zita
Michel Piccoli
3 titles together
Woman in Chains, All About Loving, The Uninvited
Jacques Rispal
3 titles together
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Zita, The Uninvited
Alain Delon
2 titles together
The Last Adventure, Ho !
Jean Darie
2 titles together
The Last Adventure, Zita
Bernard Fresson
2 titles together
Woman in Chains, Zita
Full filmography · 14
A Time for Loving
as Joan
1972
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
as Lisa Alren
1971
The Virgin and the Gypsy
as Yvette
1970
The Uninvited
as Anne
1969
The Lost Man
as Cathy Ellis
1969
Woman in Chains
as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
19687
Ho !
as Bénédicte
19686.2
Boom!
as Miss Black
19685.9
Zita
as Annie
1968
The Last Adventure
as Laetitia
19676.9
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
cast
19666.5
Idoli controluce
as Alexandra
1965