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=Sidney Poitier= ==Sidney Poitier who was born on February 20,1927. Sidney Poitier was the first african american actor to win a Oscar. He was in the army when he was young. He was born in Miami but raised in the Bahamas.==

=EARLY LIFE= ==He was son of Reginald and Evelyn Poitier. His dad was a tomato farmer. Their family was very poor and for need of money for their son Sidney Poitier. The family then moved from Cat Island to Nassau, the Bahamian capital, when he was 11 years old. He left the city of Nassau to Miami to live with his brother Cyril at the age of fifteen. Then he move to New York at the age of sixteen. He was working at a restaurant for money. He want a better job when he was looking at the newspaper he seen a ad of actors wanted. He tryout for the actoring career at an African American Theater. Instead of acting lesson, because he need work he paid off the acting by being a janitor at the theather theater. == =ADULT LIFE= ==The first play he did was called Days of Our Youth. It was a small role part for him but good enough for his career to take off. When it was time for opening night he gave the wrong lines so he ran off the stage. Then appeared in an other play called No Way Out. Where he was playing a doctor that was racist. He work harder in the 1950 also playing in South African tales like Cry, Beloved Country, the calssroom classroom drama, Blackboard Jingle, and The Defiant Ones. Though nervous and unsure of his lines, Poitier was a big hit. He continued to perform in plays until 1950, when he made his film debut in NO WAY OUT. NO WAY OUT, a violent tale of racial hatred, made him a hero back home in the Bahamas. The colonial government deemed it too explosive and censored it. The subsequent protestn the that erupted gave birth to the political party that would eventually overturn British rule. These are not you OWN words! Sidney Poitier was in the movie/play called Lilies of the Field which he was playing a American serviceman in Germany. Poitier would reprise his role for the Hollywood adaptation in 1961. It was not, however, until 1963, for his role in LILLIES OF THE FIELD, that the movie industry saluted Poitier with its greatest award. Later, then married Juanita Hardy and then married Joanna Shimkus. With those wives he had six kids all girls.== =HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS= ==In an era where Martin Luther King, Jr. Won the Nobel Prize and Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court, Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also meet Obama that is pretty cool meeting the president.== =CONCLUDE= ==Sidney Poitier was the first black man to win a Oscar. He also was a native of the Bahamas but live in the Miami with brother Cyril. When he married two girls and had six kids all girls. One of his accomplishment is he got the Noble Peace Prize and meet the president. He was in the movies No Way Out, Blackboard Jingle, and Lillies Of The Field. His first play he did was Days Of Our Youth but he got nervous and then gave the wrong lines for the play.== = Some copying of text. some spelling errors. You only have two resources = 18 out of 23 (+3 for parent signature)

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