Juanita Moore

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Birth Name: Juanita Moore

Born: 19 October 1914 Died: 1 January 2014

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 9"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Charles Thomas Burris

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Description: African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Den stora lögnen (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita was one of the beneficiaries. She became a fixture in black-oriented films of the 1960s and 1970 ... (more)