Joanna Shimkus

Personal Info

Birthday

October 30, 1943

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Also Known As

Joanna Schimkus

Johanna Shimkus

Joanna Shimkus

Biography

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.

Known For

The Virgin and the Gypsy

A Time for Loving

Ho !

Idoli controluce

Woman in Chains

Boom!

The Uninvited

The Last Adventure

Filmography

2025
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
as Self
2022
Sidney
as Self
1972
A Time for Loving
as Joan
1971
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
as Lisa Alren
1970
The Virgin and the Gypsy
as Yvette
1969
The Uninvited
as Anne
The Lost Man
as Cathy Ellis
1968
Woman in Chains
as Une invitée au vernissage (uncredited)
Ho !
as Bénédicte
Boom!
as Miss Black
Zita
as Annie
1967
The Last Adventure
as Laetitia
1965
Idoli controluce
as Alexandra
Montparnasse et Levallois
as Monica
Six in Paris
as Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
1964
All About Loving
as Sophie