Trivia

Mother of Anika Poitier and Sydney Tamiia Poitier.

Stepmother of Pamela Poitier, Beverly Poitier-Henderson and Sherri Poitier.

She is of Lithuanian Jewish and Irish ancestry.

Interior decorator/designer. (2000)

Sister-in-law of Cyril Poitier.

She attended a convent school and was brought up in Montreal.

Her father, Joseph Shimkus, was of Lithuanian descent. He worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. Her mother, Marie Petrie, was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent.