Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actor and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant lead role in a TV series as Julia, has died.
Carroll played Julia Baker, a nurse whose husband had been killed in Vietnam, in the groundbreaking situation comedy that aired from 1968 to 1971.
During her long career, Carroll earned a Tony award for the musical No Strings and an Academy Award nomination for Claudine.
She played a hard-bitten single mother of six who finds romance in Harlem with a garbage man played by James Earl Jones.