Diana Sands

Actor

Born: August 22, 1934
Died: September 21, 1973 (age 39)
From: The 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.

Filmography (15)

Poitier's Walter Lee (2018)
Self (archive footage)
Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
Laura Lewis
Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
Self (uncredited)
Willie Dynamite (1974)
Cora
Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Georgia Martin
Doctors' Wives (1971)
Helen Straughn
The Landlord (1970)
Francine "Fanny" Johnson
Ensign Pulver (1964)
Mila
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
Janice
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Beneatha Younger
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Club Hostess (uncredited)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Homeless Woman (uncredited)
Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
(uncredited)
Carib Gold (1956)
Bar Girl
Caribbean (1952)
Native Woman (uncredited)