Joanna Shimkus

Joanna Marie Shimkus is a Canadian film actress whose career ran from the mid 1960s into the early 1970s. She got her start in 1964 with Jean Aurel's De l'amour, then caught the eye of director Robert Enrico. Joanna Shimkus nude scenes appear in Zita (1968) and The Virgin And The Gypsy (1970). She was born on October 30, 1943, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Enrico cast her in Les aventuriers (1967) opposite Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, plus two more of his films. She also starred with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Joseph Losey's Boom! in 1968. In The Lost Man (1969) she worked opposite Sidney Poitier, whom she married in 1976. Her later films included The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) and A Time for Loving (1972).