Juanita Moore

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-10-19 (100 years old)

Deathday

2014-01-01

Place of Birth

Greenwood, Mississippi, USA

Juanita Moore

Biography

Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film and television actress. She is the fifth black American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category.

Acting

2000

The Kid

as Kenny's Grandmother

1988

1971

Skin Game

as Viney

1955

Women's Prison

as Polyclinic 'Polly' Jones

1959

Imitation of Life

as Annie Johnson

1973

The Mack

as Mother

1957

1954

Witness to Murder

as Negress - Mental Patient

1952

Affair in Trinidad

as Dominique

1961

1969

1982

And They're Off

as Sadie Johnson

1982

1974

Abby

as Miranda 'Momma' Potter

1968

Uptight

as Mama Wells

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Dancer (uncredited)

1956

Ransom!

as Shirley Lorraine

1952

Skirts Ahoy!

as Black Drill Team Member (uncredited)

1967

Rosie!

as Nurse

1974

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

as Backstage Maid

1975

Deliver Us From Evil

as Mrs Trindal

1975

1973

Fox Style

as Cindy McDougal

1939

Double Deal

as Nightclub Patron

1981

Paternity

as Celia

1933

So This Is Africa

as Dancer (uncredited)

1940

Broken Strings

as Nightclub Patron

1949

Pinky

as Nurse (uncredited)

1956

The Opposite Sex

as Powder Room Attendant (uncredited)

1952

Lydia Bailey

as Marie (uncredited)

1963

A Child Is Waiting

as Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)

1934

Murder at the Vanities

as Black Dancer in Ebony Rhapsody (uncredited)

1957

Something of Value

as Tribal Woman

1941

Belle Starr

as Dressed-up Freed Slave (uncredited)

1973

A Dream for Christmas

as Fannie Mitchell

1957

Bombers B-52

as Clarissa (uncredited)

2003

Rita

as Self

1955

Lord of the Jungle

as Molu's Wife

1943

Cabin in the Sky

as Nightclub Patron / Churchgoer (uncredited)

2019

1966

The Singing Nun

as Sister Mary

1957

The Green-Eyed Blonde

as Miss Randall

1975

Fugitive Lovers

as Assemblywoman Griffin

1934

Cleopatra

as Dancer / Slave Girl (uncredited)

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