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Juanita Moore

Actress

Born - 19 October 1914, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
Died - 1 January 2014

Character actress with forthright, round features who became only the fifth African-American to win an Oscar nod when she was nominated for Imitation of Life (1959), She had begun as a dancer, notably in the late 1930s at Harlem's famous Cotton Club, but began getting spots in Hollywood movies from the early 1940s: Star-Spangled Rhythm (1942), Cabin in the Sky (1943), Ebony Parade (1947), Pinky (1949), No Questions Asked (1951), Lydia Bailey (1952), Witness to Murder (1954), Women's Prison (1955), Ransom! (1956), Band of Angels (1957), Tammy Tell Me True (1961), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), A Child is Waiting (1963), The Singing Nun (1966), Uptight (1968), Skin Game (1971), Abby (1974), Deliver Us from Evil (1977), Paternity (1981), O'Hara'a Wife (1982), Two Moon Junction (1988) and The Kid (2000), her last.