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Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Imagine a world where actors and actresses never died and could reset or jump forward to whatever age they wanted, whenever they wanted. In this hypothetical world, who would be the cast of the Star Wars Universe? Any actors, dead or living, old or young, are allowed as long as you believe that at some point in their lifetime, they could have been, or will be, a good choice for a role in Star Wars. Actors who have been in a Star Wars movie are not allowed for the roles they already play, but they can be nominated for roles they could have played at a different age.
