Diana Sands
Known for ActingBorn 1934-08-22 — died 1973-09-21The Bronx, New York, USA
Diana Patricia Sands was an American actress, perhaps most known for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
Known for
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · as Homeless Woman (uncredited)
Doctors' Wives
1971 · as Helen Straughn
The Landlord
1970 · as Francine "Fanny" Johnson
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · as Beneatha Younger
Willie Dynamite
1974 · as Cora
Carib Gold
1956 · as Bar Girl
Ensign Pulver
1964 · as Mila
Free to Be… You and Me
1974 · as Self (uncredited)
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · as Club Hostess (uncredited)
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
1974 · as Laura Lewis
Caribbean
1952 · as Native Woman (uncredited)
Four Boys and a Gun
1957 · as (uncredited)
Georgia, Georgia
1972 · as Georgia Martin
An Affair of the Skin
1963 · as Janice
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018 · as Self (archive footage)