Joanna Marie Shimkus [1] (born 30 October 1943) is a Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier. [2] [3]

2022年1月7日 · Sidney Poitier married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress, in 1976, and he told PEOPLE in 2016 that "my wife and my children mean the most to me"

2024年2月16日 · Joanna Shimkus is an actress, model, and director who was born in Canada. She is best known for her roles in movies like Zita and The Virgin and the Gypsy. She is also married to the late great actor Sidney Poitier, who won an Oscar and died in 2022.

2023年4月13日 · The Bahamian-American actor married Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus in 1976, and as the proverb says, “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.” However, he had already been married, had four children, and engaged in …

2021年8月7日 · It was on the film set where the Academy Award-winner met his future wife, Joanna Shimkus, a fellow actor who was drawn to Poitier while filming the movie, per Closer Weekly. Poitier married Shimkus in 1976, over a decade after divorcing his first wife, Juanita Hardy in 1965 (via Women's Health).

Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian-born actress, model and producer, best known for starring in movies, such as ‘Zita’ and ‘The Virgin and the Gypsy’. Joanna began her career as a model in Montreal and soon moved to Paris to further boost her position in the fashion industry.

2020年9月9日 · Joanna Shimkus is a Canadian actress who gained fame in the late 1960s and 1970s for her work in various films. She was born on October 30, 1943, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is best known as the wife of legendary actor Sidney Poitier, who passed away on January 6, 2022.

2022年1月7日 · Sidney Poitier’s second wife was Joanna Shimkus, an actress he met on the set of the 1969 movie The Lost Man, in which they played love interests, Jason Higgs and Cathy Ellis. They married on...

2024年1月18日 · Joanna Shimkus is the wife of Sidney Poitier, the late Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. They met on the set of The Lost Man in 1969 and got married in January 1976. Sadly, their union ended in 2022 following the death of Sidney.

2024年8月21日 · Joanna Shimkus is a retired Canadian actor and model. She is married to Bahamian-American actor and diplomat Sidney Poitier. Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a Lithuanian-Jewish father and a mother of Irish descent. She made her debut in 1964, in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour.