CastActingPopularity 13%
Joanna Shimkus
Also credited as Joanna Schimkus, Johanna Shimkus
Born Oct 30, 194382 years oldHalifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaActing
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.
