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Sydney Tamiia Poitier is the daughter of legendary Bahamian actor Sir Sidney Poitier and Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus. She followed in her parents’ footsteps and pursued a career in acting. After getting a role in the NBC drama series First Years in 2001, the actress has gone on to star in dozens of films and television shows.

In the TV series Carter, the Bahamian-American actress played Det. Sam Shaw. Films like Nine Lives, Hood of Horror, and Clinical helped the actress gain international recognition.

She is married to a musician and has a daughter with him.

Sydney has been married to Dorian Heartsong, her longtime boyfriend, since June 2012. Dorian, her spouse, is a musician and the former bassist of the American rock band Powerman 5000. He was known as ‘Dorian 27’ during his time with the rock band and left in 2001 due to problems with the other members. He has composed music for films such as Extreme Ops and Live Free or Die.

The Carter actress said that she dated some sweet gentlemen in the past in an interview with NDailyNews in January 2003. Because the good people she dated were ‘total fools,’ Sydney explained that dating can be a confusing and confusing affair. Eventually, the Bahamian-American actress recognized the musical talent Dorian’s insightful qualities and had a relationship with him.

Back in 2007, when the actress was living in Los Angeles with her musician lover, promoting the virtues of marriage was not one of her top priorities. In June 2012, however, Sydney bucked the odds and married Dorian in an official husband-and-wife partnership.

The couple received their first children in May 2015, nearly three years after they married. A’Zalia Delancey Coffey was their daughter’s name. Their children’s surnames include Delancey, which is the name of a New York street, and Coffey, which is an anglicized variant of Cobhthach, which means triumphant.

Father is a Bahamian-American, while mother is a Canadian.

Sydney Poitier was born to Joanna Shimkus and Sir Sidney Poitier. With Afro-Bahamian, Lithuanian, and Irish ancestors, the American actress is of mixed ethnicity.
Sidney is a Bahamian-American actor who won the ‘Academy Award for Best Actor’ and the ‘Golden Globe Award for Best Actor’ for his role as Homer Smith in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field,’ making him the first black actor and the first Bahamian to do so. Sidney, who is of Afro-Bahamian origin, has appeared in over three hundred films and written three autobiographies. Sidney, Sydney’s father, has a net worth of $25 million as a Bahamian actor who was born in the United States.

Joanna, her Canadian mother, is of Lithuanian and Irish descent. Joanna is a Canadian actress who made her film debut in De I’amour in 1964. Her parents, Joseph Shimkus and Marie Teresa Petrie, raised her as a devout Catholic. She married Sidney in 1976 and had two daughters with him. Joanna, Sydney’s mother, is a Canadian-born American actress with a net worth of $5 million.

Anika, Sydney’s younger sister, is an actress and mother of two children. From their father’s previous relationship, the Poitier brothers have four half-sisters called Beverly, Pamela, Sherri, and Gina. Her maternal grandpa is Jewish and of Lithuanian descent, according to reports. The pedigree of Sydney’s paternal grandfather Reginald James Poitier and paternal grandmother Evelyn Outten was Bahamian.

Biography of Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Sydney Tamiia Poitier was born on November 15, 1973, in Los Angeles, California. Sydney is of American nationality and stands at 1.8 m (5′ 10″) tall.

According to wiki, she earned a bachelor’s degree in acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.