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Encyclopedia > Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Not to be confused with Sidney Poitier.
Sydney Tamiia Poitier

At the premiere of Grindhouse in Austin, Texas, March 2007.
Photo by Jeff Balke.
Born November 15, 1973 (1973-11-15) (age 33)
Flag of the United States Los Angeles, California, United States

Sydney Tamiia Poitier (born November 15, 1973) is an American actress known for her work on television. Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (667 × 1000 pixel, file size: 511 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... See also Planet Terror and Death Proof Grindhouse is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. ... Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas, the county seat of Travis County, and home to the University of Texas at Austin. ... March 2007 is the third month of the year. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...


Poitier was born in Los Angeles, California to actor Sidney Poitier and former actress Joanna Shimkus. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ... Joanna Shimkus (born 30 October, 1943 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian former actress of Lithuanian descent. ...


Poitier was a recurring character in season one of Joan of Arcadia, where she played Rebecca Askew, the love interest of Joan's older brother, Kevin, and was briefly a regular on Veronica Mars before the show opted to focus on different characters (the show's mystery format required more guest stars on each episode than was in the budget, and Poitier's character was most peripheral to the existing storyline) and she was dropped from the cast. Her role in both series was related to journalism - on Joan of Arcadia she worked at the same newspaper as Kevin, and on Veronica Mars she was Veronica's journalism teacher. Recently, Poitier appeared in Death Proof, director Quentin Tarantino's segment of the movie Grindhouse. Joan of Arcadia was an American television fantasy/family drama which aired on Fridays, 8-9 p. ... This article is about the Veronica Mars television series. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 film expected to be released in the United States on April 6, 2007. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar winning screenwriter. ... Exploitation films is a loosely defined term to describe a film genre that typically sacrifice the traditional notions of artistic merit for a more sensationalistic display, often featuring excessive sex, violence, and gore. ...


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Encyclopedia: Sydney Tamiia Poitier (440 words)
Sydney Tamiia Poitier (born November 15, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress best known for her work on television.
Poitier says she talked with one of her sisters and concluded that "every single friend that we knew was in some sort of mixed relationship -- fl and white, Spanish and white, Asian and white, Asian and fl, Jewish and Christian.
Poitier was born and raised in Los Angeles in a family of thespians.
Sydney Poitier making her own way in 'Abby' - PittsburghLIVE.com (738 words)
The 29-year-old Sydney — the youngest of Poitier's six daughters (from from a previous marriage) — stars in "Abby," the new UPN sitcom about a television sports producer trying to balance her love life and career.
Poitier says she talked with one of her sisters and concluded that "every single friend that we knew was in some sort of mixed relationship — fl and white, Spanish and white, Asian and white, Asian and fl, Jewish and Christian.
Unlike her character, Poitier isn't interested in sports, although "just to make a point that girls should be allowed to," she once tried out for the football team at school.
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