Sidney Poitier
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Emerging from a Bahamian family and raised on Cat Island, he moved to the United States as a teenager and honed his craft at the American Negro Theatre, where his first screen appearance came as a high-school student in Blackboard Jungle (1955). He gained recognition for dignified African-American leads in The Defiant Ones, earning a Silver Bear and the first Oscar nomination for a black actor,…
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