Joanna Shimkus
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025
as Self
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
as Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife
Sidney
2022
as Self
A Time for Loving
1972
as Joan
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
1971
as Lisa Alren
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970
as Yvette
The Lost Man
1969
as Cathy Ellis
The Uninvited
1969
as Anne
Ho !
1968
as Bénédicte
Boom!
1968
as Miss Black
Zita
1968
as Annie
Woman in Chains
1968
as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
The Last Adventure
1967
as Laetitia
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
Montparnasse et Levallois
1965
as Monica
Six in Paris
1965
as Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Idoli controluce
1965
as Alexandra
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Self
All About Loving
1964
as Sophie