Joanna Shimkus
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday30 October 1943 (82 years old)
Place of birthHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Known credits19
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 was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's short "Montparnasse-Levallois," his contribution to the anth…
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025 · Self
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023 · Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife
Sidney
2022 · Self
Sidney
2022 · Executive Producer
A Time for Loving
1972 · Joan
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
1971 · Lisa Alren
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970 · Yvette
The Uninvited
1969 · Anne
The Lost Man
1969 · Cathy Ellis
Woman in Chains
1968 · Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
Ho !
1968 · Bénédicte
Boom!
1968 · Miss Black
Zita
1968 · Annie
The Last Adventure
1967 · Laetitia
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
Idoli controluce
1965 · Alexandra
Montparnasse et Levallois
1965 · Monica
Six in Paris
1965 · Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Self
All About Loving
1964 · Sophie
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