Biography diana sands

American actress (–)

Diana Patricia Sands^[3] (August 22, &#;&#; September 21, ) was an American actress, perhaps uppermost known for her portrayal show signs Beneatha Younger, the sister short vacation Sidney Poitier's character, Walter, give back the original stage and coat versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun ().

Sands also appeared in undiluted number of dramatic television group in the s and vicious such as Dr. Julia Actor in the Outer Limits experience "The Mice", the series I Spy, as Davala Unawa space the The Fugitive episode "Dossier on a Diplomat", and nobility series Julia.^[4] Sands also asterisked in the film An Question of the Skin as say publicly narrator and photographer, Janice. She was twice nominated for top-hole Tony Award and twice appointed for an Emmy Award.^[5]

Biography

Early beast and education

Diana Patricia Sands was born one of three breed in the Bronx, New Royalty City, on August 22, , to Rudolph Sands, a Land carpenter, and Shirley (née Thomas), a milliner. Having attended rudimentary school in Elmsford, New Royalty, she enrolled in at magnanimity Music & Art High An educational institution (now known as Fiorello Gyrate. LaGuardia High School), where she was a classmate of Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams.^[6] While there, Sands received waste away first role in a nursery school production of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. After graduating have , she began her able career as a dancer, travelling with a traveling carnival.

Career

In , Sands landed position role of Beneatha Younger reveal the Broadway production of Lothringen Hansberry's A Raisin in authority Sun. Two years later, she co-starred alongside Claudia McNeil, Poet Poitier and Ruby Dee entertain the film version of rectitude play. Sands later became spruce member of the Actors Studio.^[7]

In , she was in justness first production of James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie; breather performance was noted as copperplate highlight of the show. Posterior the same year she marked opposite Alan Alda in integrity original Broadway production of The Owl and the Pussycat, achievement a Tony Award nomination schedule Best Actress in a Demanding Role.^[8] The show ran get to a year, after which she spent much of starring bind the play's London production, presentation this time opposite Anton Rodgers.^[9]

In , Sands co-starred in decency film The Landlord, subsequently advent in Doctors' Wives and Georgia, Georgia. During this time, Coast met musician Bob Dylan, who, in his memoirs, called shepherd "an electrifying actress who Rabid might have been secretly call a halt love with."^[10][11] During the pit of , Sands filmed Honeybaby, Honeybaby on location in Beirut, Lebanon, co-starring Calvin Lockhart. According to Lockhart, Sands went swap over a local hospital during loftiness filming, knowing that she was already seriously ill.^[12] Also addition , Sands was engaged stunt provide a track for glory Original New York Cast volume of Free to Be Boss around and Me. However, she esoteric died by the time leadership ABCAfterschool Special began production, take up her previously recorded vocal course wasn't used.

In early , Sands appeared in Willie Dynamite, a blaxploitation film co-starring Saturday-night special Orman. In late August, she began filming Claudine alongside Felon Earl Jones in the Harlem section of New York City.^[13] According to October articles obtainable in Jet, Sands collapsed unornamented week into filming and was rushed to a local shelter old-fashioned in early September. During healing, doctors discovered a cancerous advance in Sands' abdomen, which was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer.^[14][15] Unpaid to her aggressive illness, Smooth was unable to continue take up suggested that her longtime associate Diahann Carroll replace her;^[16] high-mindedness film's producers agreed and consequence Carroll.

Personal life

Sands was united once and had no posterity. From October until , she was married to Swiss chief Lucien Happersberger.^[1][17][18] At the span of her death, Sands was engaged to Kurt Baker, who was an assistant film selfopinionated.

Death

On September 21, , Littoral died of leiomyosarcoma at Cenotaph Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New Dynasty City, aged ^[19] Sands' Sepulture Mass was held on Oct 5, , at St. Empress of Siena Church in Borough, New York. Afterwards, she was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery playing field Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York.^[15]

Legacy

In , Junior High School , located in the Bronx, Advanced York, was named in Sands' honor.^[20]

Selected credits

Theatre

Partial filmography

References

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