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Biography of Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier, an American film actor, was the first African-American actor to be named "Best" by the Academy in for his role in the film "Lilies of the Field." He is one of the oldest American actors and has been honored with a lifetime achievement award in cinema.

Poitier (77) grew up in the Bahamas in a family of tomato farmers.

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As a premature baby, he weighed only kilograms, but miraculously survived. The youngest of eight children, Sidney dropped out of school at the age of Three years later, he went to New York in search of a better life. With nowhere to live and nothing to live on, he enlisted in the army.

After his service, he returned to New York,