Sidney Poitier married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress, in 1976, and he told PEOPLE in 2016 that "my wife and my children mean the most to me" Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus shared a decades ...

Filmmaker Norman Jewison and actress Lee Grant reflect on working with Sidney Poitier following his death at age 94 on Thursday Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for ...

Sidney Poitier wasn’t initially a fan of Atlanta when he traveled through what was then Atlanta Municipal Airport in the 1950s. He had already been a lead actor in films such as “No Way Out ...

That intensity feels especially distant in this play's jaunty opening scene, where two white telly bigwigs swap one-liners and talk up the studio’s potential new star Sidney Poitier. But once ...

And they approached me about playing Alex Haley." Murphy continues: "And some-kind-of-where around that same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something. And I asked him, ‘Yeah, I’m ...

And they approached me about playing Alex Haley. Around that same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something, and I asked him, 'Yeah, I'm thinking about playing Alex Haley!' And Sidney ...

Ivanno Jeremiah as Sidney Poitier in Retrograde Unfolding in real time in a tight and wickedly funny 90 minutes, Ryan Calais Cameron’s play dramatizes the moral challenge faced by Sidney Poitier ...