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Sidney Poitier | Age 94

Well, Sidney Poitier is a retired actor, activist, film director, and ambassador. He was born on 20th February 1927 in Miami, Florida, U.S. Moreover, he has Bahamian and American citizenship. Sidney was the first Black male and Bahamian actor who won the Academy Award for the Best Actor.

Furthermore, he has also served as the Bahamian Ambassador for Japan from 1997 to 2007. Poitier joined the North American Negro Theater and landed on his breakthrough film Blackboard Jungle, in 1955. Apart from this, he first got married to Juanita Hardy in 1950 and divorced in 1965. Sidney then got married to Joanna Shimkus in 1976.

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