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Her first film role was in Carmen Jones in 1954,
but her big break came when she became the first
African American actress to star in her own
television series in which she did not play a
domestic worker, when Julia (television)|Julia
debuted in 1968.  She was nominated for an Emmy
Award for the role.

In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of
Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess along with such
distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy
Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey. 
Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman provided Carroll's
singing voice.

In 1974 she was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Actress for Claudine (movie)|Claudine. 
She has also starred in the series Dynasty
(television)|Dynasty and The Colbys.  Carroll also
had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different
World as Whitley Gilbert's (Jasmine Guy) mother.

==Broadway credits==
*House of Flowers (1954 in music|1954) in the part
of Ottilie
*No Strings (1962 in music|1962) in the part of
Barbara Woodruff
*Agnes of God (1982) (replaced Elizabeth Ashley)

==Filmography==
*Carmen Jones (1954)
*Porgy and Bess (1959)
*Goodbye Again (1961)
*Paris Blues (1961)
*Hurry Sundown (film)|Hurry Sundown (1967)
*The Split (1968)
*Claudine (1974)
*Color Adjustment: Blacks in Primetime (1991)
(documentary)
*The Five Heartbeats (1991)
*Eve's Bayou (1997)