Subject
Entertainment, Movies, Actor; Sidney Poitier
Description
Poitier overcame an impoverished background in the Bahamas and softened his thick island accent to rise to the top of his profession at a time when prominent roles for Black actors were rare. He won the Oscar for 1963’s “Lilies of the Field,” in which he played an itinerant laborer who helps a group of White nuns build a chapel.
Creator
By Brandon Griggs, CNN
Source
Publisher
cnn.com
File
