In 1968, she was given the starring role of the online grid dramaJulia.
The starring role just so happened to also be the first time a primetime soap had a black lead.
Carroll wrote two memoirs,Diahann!in 1986 andThe Legs Are the Last to Goin 2008.
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She was married four times.
Her first marriage was to record producer Monte Kay from 1956-1962.
Carroll then wedJetmagazine editor Robert DeLeon in 1975, but he died in a car accident two years later.
In 1987, she tied the knot for a fourth time with singer Vic Damone.
They divorced in 1996.
The attention and responsibility were so stressful, but Im enormously proud of that show, she said.
