JOANNA SHIMKUS
ACTING
Joanna Shimkus Poitier (born 30 October 1943) is a Canadian film actress.
She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier, and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Shimkus, a Lithuanian-Jew and Marie Petrie, a Catholic of Irish descent.
