Sydney Tamiia Poitier

Sydney Tamiia Poitier (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay; born November 15, 1973)^[1] is an American-Canadian television and film actress.

Born in Los Angeles, Poitier is the daughter of Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier and Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus.^[2] Her mother is of Lithuanian Jewish ^[3] and Irish Catholic descent.^[4] She has an older sister, Anika. She also has four older half-sisters, Beverly, Pamela, Sherri, and Gina, from her father's first marriage.^[5]

Poitier attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she earned a bachelor's degree in acting.^[2] She also studied at Stella Adler Studio of Acting.^{[6] [7]}

Poitier and her husband, musician Dorian Heartsong, have one child together, a daughter born in 2015. ^[8]

Poitier began her career of acting in the late 1990s. In 2001, she landed her first role on television in the NBC drama series First Years . The series was canceled after three episodes. In 2003, she starred in the UPN sitcom Abby . That series was also canceled during its first season. Later that same year, she had a recurring role in Joan of Arcadia , where she played Rebecca Askew, the love interest of Joan's older brother, Kevin (Jason Ritter). She was also a regular on the first season of Veronica Mars .^[9] However, she left the show after only appearing in four episodes because of budget cuts.

In 2007, Poitier starred in Death Proof , director Quentin Tarantino's segment of the movie Grindhouse , as radio DJ Jungle Julia. The next year, she had a co-starring role in the new Knight Rider series, as FBI Agent Carrie Rivai.^[10] In 2011, she guest-starred on two episodes of Private Practice .

Poitier starred as Detective Sam Shaw in the Canadian crime comedy series Carter , which ran for two seasons in 2018 and 2019.

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