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Diana Sands

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🎂 August 22, 1934📍 The Bronx, New York, USA🕯️ September 21, 1973 · Age 39

Biography

Diana Patricia Sands was an American actress, perhaps most known for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.

BODY OF WORK

Diana Sands's Filmography

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Poitier's Walter Lee

2018

as Self (archive footage)

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Honeybaby, Honeybaby

1974⭐ 6.0

as Laura Lewis

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Free to Be… You and Me

1974⭐ 6.8

as Self (uncredited)

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Willie Dynamite

1974⭐ 6.4

as Cora

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Georgia, Georgia

1972⭐ 6.0

as Georgia Martin

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Doctors' Wives

1971⭐ 4.9

as Helen Straughn

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The Landlord

1970⭐ 6.0

as Francine "Fanny" Johnson

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Ensign Pulver

1964⭐ 6.5

as Mila

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An Affair of the Skin

1963⭐ 10.0

as Janice

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A Raisin in the Sun

1961⭐ 7.7

as Beneatha Younger

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Odds Against Tomorrow

1959⭐ 6.9

as Club Hostess (uncredited)

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A Face in the Crowd

1957⭐ 7.6

as Homeless Woman (uncredited)

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Four Boys and a Gun

1957⭐ 6.6

as (uncredited)

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Carib Gold

1956⭐ 5.5

as Bar Girl

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Caribbean

1952⭐ 6.3

as Native Woman (uncredited)