
Known for
Acting
Born
October 30, 1943 (age 82)
Birthplace
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.) Sh...
2025
2023
as Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife
2022
as Self, Executive Producer
1972
as Joan
1971
as Lisa Alren
1970
as Yvette
1969
as Anne
1969
as Cathy Ellis
1968
as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
1968
as Bénédicte
1968
as Miss Black
1968
as Annie
1967
as Laetitia
1966
1965
as Alexandra
1965
as Monica
1965
as Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
1965
1964
as Sophie