Diahann Carroll
- Birthplace: Bronx, New York
- Birthday: July 17, 1935
Frequently singled out as one of the world's most beautiful women, Diahann Carroll began singing at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church at the age of six and was working in nightclubs while still a student at NYC's High School of Music and Art. An accomplished stage, film and TV star, not to mention Las Vegas headliner, she first came to prominence in Otto Preminger's "Carmen Jones" (1954) and made her Broadway debut later that year in the Harold Arlen-Truman Capote musical "House of Flowers". She appeared in …more