Diahann Carroll

Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee Diahann Carroll, who recurs as a guest star on WHITE COLLAR, is promoting a special episode of the show called COUNTERMEASURES (#211) that she sings with Matt Bomer in and also guest stars Billy Dee Williams. She was also inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame this year. Having appeared in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts such as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, she starred in 1968's Julia, one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role. Later she created the role of Dominique Deveraux on the popular prime time soap opera, Dynasty. She is the recipient of numerous stage and screen awards and nominations. Carroll has been married four times and became the mother of a daughter in 1960. She is a breast cancer survivor and activist.