Visiting the site with Internet Explorer or other browsers may not provide the best viewing experience. Diahann Carroll: viva la diva The clothes! Box Office Expand the sub-menu. We were of a mind that this was a different show. By clicking "Publish", you are confirming that the image fully complies with TV. He's a phenomenon as a human being. As she publishes her memoir, the actress tells all to Catherine Elsworth.

In she met David Frost, whom she describes as 'one of the best things that ever happened to me'. After all her failed relationships, does she prefer being single? I think that motivated me a lot more than I'd like to confess,' she adds, laughing. Please purchase a subscription to read our premium content. The impish Legrand was composing right up to his death, at The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Her portrayal of a gracefully dutiful, wholesomely assimilated single mom was the image and embodiment of a white woman with brown skin: Caucasian features, straight hair, and grammatically correct at all times.

I didn't like the people who made my parents feel uncomfortable. Then she made her Broadway and bigscreen debuts. Singer and Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated actress Diahann Carroll , the first African American woman to star in her own TV series, has died at at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. Despite her beauty and undeniable talents as a performer, Carroll sometimes struggled to find roles. Updated: February 17, am. In she met David Frost, whom she describes as 'one of the best things that ever happened to me'.

Julia , on which Carroll starred, was one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role. In , when I was looking for stories to tell about black people in Hollywood, I interviewed her. Visiting the site with Internet Explorer or other browsers may not provide the best viewing experience. Diahann Carroll has died at age 84, from cancer according to reports. Video Expand the sub-menu.