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  • Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning Bahamian-American actor, dies at 94

    01/07/2022 7:32:35 AM PST · by Borges · 85 replies
    Fox 29 ^ | 1/7/22 | Kelly Hayers
    Sidney Poitier, a Bahamian-American actor who became the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1963 film "Lilies of the Field," has died. He was 94. News of the legendary actor and filmmaker’s death was confirmed to FOX News on Friday by the Bahamas Foreign Affairs' office. Poitier, who was born in Miami and raised in the Bahamas, was the son of tomato farmers before launching a career that went from small, hard-won theater parts to eventual Hollywood stardom. Poitier received acclaim for several films, including "A Raisin in the Sun," "Porgy and Bess"...