What are some roles Diahann Carroll could have played?

Julia.

Friday Foster.

I could see her in a Hart to Hart type TV series.

I must say she was amazing as Dominique -she could do anything in my book

Nurse R. She was a very gifted actress capable of far more than fluff.

She has a pretty but chilly sort of poker face. Not much expression. And she seems formal and prissy, like she wouldn't want to get unpleasant or grungy.

I can see her in a starched white uniform.

Satan, The Exorcist

She was a beautiful woman with a splendid voice, but she was not a great actress. She's fine in Claudine, but it's not really a great performance.

Dawn Davenport, "Female Trouble"

I can see her in many of those films but she'd have been excellent in Turning Point.

She was great fun on Dynasty. But I think she could have carried another sitcom, something in the MTM vein.

Actually, never mind the sitcom, I like R3's Hart to Hart idea.

She wasn't particularly funny in her sitcom guest appearances. She was a great beauty but her acting wasn't terribly compelling or distinctive. Stephanie Beacham was so much better as a sparring partner in "Dynasty."

It would have been great to have paired her on the Hart to Hart type show with Tim Reid, who was so classy.

Was Tim fond of locker room play?

I wish she would of played Erica in "An Unmarried Woman" so that we wouldn't have had to see Jill Clayburgh's unsettling tits!

I could also see her as a teacher in FAME, maybe if Debbie Allen didn't do the TV series.

Maybe a TV series in the vein of "The Thomas Crown Affair" or "Cover-Up."

I can see her in many roles that Joe Pesci ultimately played.

She was a starchy nurse and single mom with a son on 'Julia' so I can see her in both Cuckoo's Nest and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Are you kidding? Her appeal centred on glamour, even while playing someone who lives on a nurse's salary.

R21 ever see Claudine where she played a mother of 6 who was on welfare?

^ and Carroll was nominated for the Oscar for Claudine the year Burstyn won for Alice.

Carroll's Old Hollywood elocution voice failed to convince as Claudine.

I could see her being good in The Exorcist but again there weren't many huge black movie stars then (which the mother in the film is.)

[quote] I can see her in many roles that Joe Pesci ultimately played.

Think how great he would have been in the title role on "Julia"!

The Wiz.

Mahagony.

Lady Sings the Blues.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Leatherface

Diana Sands would have been so much better in Claudine. She was much more earthy than Great Lady Carroll.

Cicely Tyson (at a TCM event) spoke about how she was offered the role in Claudine but turned out down since she didn't want to be seen as that kind of woman.

She mentioned that people said the "girl" who played it got an Oscar nomination but she said she didn't regret missing out on that since she got Miss Jane Pittman later on.

Diahann Carroll was a bizarre drunk and pain in the ASS for years, and that's why she didn't work more.

Like Debra Winger she cooked her own goose! She just wasn't worth the bother.

R30 and yet Tyson appeared in The Concord Airport 79 with Susan Blakely, Martha Raye, Jimmy 'JJ' Walker and Charo!

There are so many that it's impossible to list just 10, but I'd add Karen Black and Jill Clayburgh.

She was said to be...fabulous.

"The Devil Wore Prada"

I can easily see her as Chris beating the motherfucking devil 👿 right out of Regan

I can definitely see her in Shirley MacLaine's role in The Turning Point. She'd have been fantastic.

Mame

OP, Gelnda jackson's character in A TOUCH OF CLASS wasn't named Tricia. Her name was Vickie Allessio.

Someone on this site claimed she performed in front an audience in NYC sometimes during the 70s. And when she didn't get the response she wanted she said. "Are you all faggots". Lol. People are so absurd to make up such lies.