Sydney Tamiia Poitier is an American actress known for her work on television.

Biography

Sydney is the daughter of famous Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

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Sydney had a recurring part in season one of Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi , who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m...

, where she played Rebecca Askew, the love interest of Joan's older brother, Kevin. She was also a regular on the first season of Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...

before the show opted to focus on different characters and she was dropped from the cast. Coincidentally, her role in both series was related to journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 - on Joan of Arcadia she worked at the same newspaper as Kevin, and on Veronica Mars she was Veronica

Veronica Mars (character)

Veronica Mars is a fictional character in UPN/The CW the television series, Veronica Mars, which aired on the UPN and CW networks from 2004 to 2007. She is portrayed by Kristen Bell.- Background and details of plot :...

's journalism teacher. In 2007, Poitier appeared in Death Proof

Death Proof

Death Proof is a 2007 American action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film centers on a psychopathic stunt man who stalks young women before murdering them in staged car accidents using his "death-proof" stunt car...

, director Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

's segment of the movie Grindhouse as radio DJ Jungle Julia. She had a recurring role in the first season of the 2008 series Knight Rider

Knight Rider (2008 TV series)

Knight Rider was a 2008 series that follows the 1982 TV series of the same title and the 2008 television movie. The series stars Justin Bruening as Mike Traceur, the estranged son of Michael Knight. The series also stars Deanna Russo as Sarah Graiman, Traceur's former girlfriend and love interest....

, as FBI Agent Carrie Rivai.

Personal

Sydney was born in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, the daughter of actor Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

 and former actress Joanna Shimkus. She has Bahamian

The Bahamas

The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

 (father) and Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n-Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 (mother) ancestry. She has five older sisters.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Park Day	Sophia Johnson
1998	Free of Eden	Nicole Turner	TV movie
1999	True Crime True Crime (1999 film) True Crime is a 1999 American mystery drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, and based on Andrew Klavan's 1997 novel of the same name. Eastwood also stars in the film as a journalist covering the execution of a death row inmate, only to discover that the convict may actually be innocent.-Plot:Steve...	Jane March
1999	Noah's Ark Noah's Ark (1999 film) Noah's Ark is a 1999 TV Film directed by John Irvin and starring Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen. The film, as many other related film and television projects, re-tells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis...	Ruth	TV movie
2001	MacArthur Park	Linda
2001	First Years	Riley Kessler	9 episodes
2001	Happy Birthday	Hannah
2003	Abby Abby (TV series) Abby is an American sitcom shown on UPN from January 6, 2003 to March 4, 2003. The show's original title, Abby Walker, was soon changed.-Overview:...	Abigail Newman	10 episodes
2003		Dr. Leslie Coburn	Episode: "The Placebo Effect"
2003–2004	Joan of Arcadia Joan of Arcadia Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi , who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m...	Rebecca Askew	8 episodes
2004		Hellena Handbasket
2004	Veronica Mars Veronica Mars Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...	Mallory Dent	7 episodes
2005	Nine Lives Nine Lives (2005 film) Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery,...	Vanessa
2006	Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...	Deborah Fleiss	Episode: "17 Seconds 17 Seconds "17 Seconds" is the 25th episode from the medical drama series, Grey's Anatomy, from the second season. It is the first part of a three part season finale. The episode was written by Mark Wilding, and directed by Daniel Minahan. It was originally air date in May, 14, 2006, running for 43:10... "
2006	Hood of Horror Hood of Horror Hood of Horror is a horror film adaptation of a fictional comic book, which is an anthology of three short tales set in an urban milieu in a style reminiscent of Tales From The Crypt and Tales from the Hood. The movie debuted at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival...	Wanda
2007	Grindhouse	Jungle Julia	Segment: "Death Proof"
2007		Cecile
2008	Blues	Dee
2008–2009	Knight Rider Knight Rider (2008 TV series) Knight Rider was a 2008 series that follows the 1982 TV series of the same title and the 2008 television movie. The series stars Justin Bruening as Mike Traceur, the estranged son of Michael Knight. The series also stars Deanna Russo as Sarah Graiman, Traceur's former girlfriend and love interest....	Carrie Rivai	12 episodes
2010	Page 36	Miss Gray	Short film
2010	Yard Sale	Kate Butler	Short film
2011	Big Tweet	Big Tweet's Girl	Short film
2011	Private Practice	Michelle	Episode: "Love and Lies"
2011	Supah Ninjas Supah Ninjas Supah Ninjas is an American action-comedy series, created by Leo Chu and Eric Garcia. The series premiered as a special preview on Nickelodeon on January 17, 2011 in the United States and started airing regularly on April 16, 2011.- Premise :...	Katherine/Katara	Episode: "Katara"

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