Died at 90
female
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of an interracial diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series in 1968. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the 1974 film Claudine. She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
In the 40's, the members of the Unity Fields cult commit mass suicide when their leader Harris burns the old house where they are with gasoline. The only survivor is Cynthia Weston, who is in coma. Thirteen years later, Cynthia awakes from her coma and is interned in a mental institution to adapt herself to the life in the 50's and physiotherapy in her muscles. She joins the group therapy of Dr. Alex Karmen for borderline personality disorder under the instructions of the psychologist Dr. Berrisford, but Dr. Karmen believes the treatment is not adequate for her. Soon Cynthia has visions of Harris trying to force her to commit suicide. She does not accept, and Cynthia sees Harris killing the other patients in the hospital.
