1. Juanita Moore was an American film, television, and stage actress.
10 Facts About Juanita Moore
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Juanita Moore was the fifth black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category at a time when only one black actor, Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, had won an Oscar.
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Juanita Moore was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Ella and Harrison Moore.
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Juanita Moore's family moved in the Great Migration to Los Angeles, where she was raised.
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Juanita Moore was the vice president of the Original Cambridge Players, who took a Los Angeles production of The Amen Corner to Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in April 1965.
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Juanita Moore was friends with Marlon Brando and James Baldwin.
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Juanita Moore was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for the role.
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Juanita Moore was married for 50 years to Charles Burris, who died in 2001.
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Juanita Moore was a Los Angeles bus driver and they met when she stepped out in front of his approaching bus.
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Juanita Moore died at her home in Los Angeles on January 1,2014, at age 99 of natural causes.