Joanna Shimkus

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

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…

Known for

• A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard — Self2025
• Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood — Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife2023
• Sidney — Self2022
• A Time for Loving — Joan1972
• The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker — Lisa Alren1971
• The Virgin and the Gypsy — Yvette1970
• The Lost Man — Cathy Ellis1969
• The Uninvited — Anne1969
• Ho ! — Bénédicte1968
• Boom! — Miss Black1968

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

854

Total plays

2,038

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Joanna

Gender

female

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Halifax

Spouse

Sidney Poitier

Child

Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Occupation

singer

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