Is Sidney Poitier still married to Joanna Shimkus?
Is Sidney Poitier still married to Joanna Shimkus?
Poitier and Shimkus stayed married until Poitier died on January 6, 2022, at the age of 99. In an interview with Closer Weekly in 2020, Poitier revealed the “key ingredient” to his marriage of 50-plus years.
How many kids did Sidney Poitier have with his first wife?
Poitier was the father of six daughters from two marriages. He shared four daughters—Beverly, Pamela, Sherri and Gina—with his first wife, Juanita Hardy, whom he was married to from 1950 to 1965.
Which of Sidney Poitier’s children died?
Sidney and Juanita’s youngest daughter, Gina, died at age 57 in 2018.
What is Sidney Poitier syndrome?
” Even though the acting, his and Rod Steiger’s particularly, is excellent, we have the same old Sidney Poitier syndrome: a good guy in a totally white world, with no wife, no sweetheart, no woman to love or kiss, helping the white man solve the white man’s problem.
