
Diana Sands
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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.
Known for
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The Landlord (1970)
as Francine "Fanny" Johnson

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as Homeless Woman (uncredited)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
as Beneatha Younger

Willie Dynamite (1974)
as Cora

Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
as Self (uncredited)

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
as Club Hostess (uncredited)

Doctors' Wives (1971)
as Helen Straughn

Ensign Pulver (1964)
as Mila

Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
as (uncredited)

Caribbean (1952)
as Native Woman (uncredited)

Carib Gold (1956)
as Bar Girl

Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
as Laura Lewis

An Affair of the Skin (1963)
as Janice

Georgia, Georgia (1972)
as Georgia Martin

Poitier's Walter Lee (2018)
as Self (archive footage)





