Joanna Shimkus
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 30, 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Movies
- 18
Joanna Marie Shimkus (born 30 October 1943) is a Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
Joanna Marie Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Shimkus, a Jewish father of Lithuanian descent, and Marie Petrie, a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. Her father worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. She attended a convent school and was brought up in Montreal.
She made her debut in 1964 in Jean Aurel's film De l'amour. (She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's short "Montparnasse-Levallois," his contribution to the anthology film Six in Paris; it was shot in December 1963, but the film was not released until 1965.) She was then noticed by film director Robert Enrico, who selected her to appear in three of his films; Les aventuriers (1967), opposite Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, Tante Zita (1968), and Ho! (1968).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard | Self |
| 2023 | Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood | Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife |
| 2022 | Sidney | Self |
| 1972 | A Time for Loving | Joan |
| 1971 | The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker | Lisa Alren |
| 1970 | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Yvette |
| 1969 | The Uninvited | Anne |
| 1969 | The Lost Man | Cathy Ellis |
| 1968 | Woman in Chains | Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Ho ! | Bénédicte |
| 1968 | Boom! | Miss Black |
| 1968 | Zita | Annie |
| 1967 | The Last Adventure | Laetitia |
| 1966 | Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? | |
| 1965 | Idoli controluce | Alexandra |
| 1965 | Montparnasse et Levallois | Monica |
| 1965 | Six in Paris | Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois") |
| 1964 | All About Loving | Sophie |
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