| Eartha Kitt  AKA Eartha Mae Keith
Born: 17-Jan-1927 [1]
Birthplace: North, SC
Died: 25-Dec-2008
Location of death: Weston, CT [2]
Cause of death: Cancer - Colon
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Catwoman
[1] Eartha Kitt usually gave her birth date as January 26 in 1926 or 1928, as she was abandoned at a young age by her mother and did not know the real date. In 1998 students from Benedict College located her birth certificate and actual birth date, January 17, 1927.
[2] Some media reports have her dying at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where she was treated for colon cancer prior to her death. According to her daughter, Kitt died at her home in Weston, Connecticut, her residence since 2002.
Father: Daniel Sturkie (white sharecropper)
Mother: Annie Mae Keitt
Sister: Pearl (half sister)
Husband: John William McDonald ("Bill", m. 6-Jun-1960, div. 1965)
Daughter: Kitt Shapiro (b. 26-Nov-1961)
Boyfriend: Orson Welles (she denied this)
Boyfriend: Charles Revson
Boyfriend: John Barry Ryan III
Boyfriend: Porfirio Rubirosa
High School: Metropolitan High School, New York, NY
High School: High School of Performing Arts, New York, NY
UNICEF
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1975
Daytime Emmy Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for The Emperor's New School (2006)
Daytime Emmy Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for The Emperor's New School (2006)
Daytime Emmy Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for Wonder Pets! (2006)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6656 Hollywood Blvd (recordings)
Cherokee Ancestry Maternal
TELEVISION
Batman
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
And Then Came Love (1-Jun-2007) · Mona
Kronk's New Groove (29-Nov-2005) [VOICE]
Preaching to the Choir (12-Oct-2005) · Ms. Nettie
Holes (11-Apr-2003) · Madame Zeroni
Anything But Love (10-Oct-2002) · Herself
Feast of All Saints (11-Nov-2001)
The Emperor's New Groove (10-Dec-2000) [VOICE]
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (29-Sep-1998) [VOICE]
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (13-Sep-1998)
Harriet the Spy (10-Jul-1996) · Agatha K. Plummer
Fatal Instinct (29-Oct-1993) · First Trial Judge
Boomerang (1-Jul-1992) · Lady Eloise
Ernest Scared Stupid (11-Oct-1991)
Living Doll (Feb-1990)
Erik the Viking (1-Sep-1989)
Dragonard (13-May-1987)
Friday Foster (25-Dec-1975) · Madame Rena
Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
Synanon (5-May-1965)
Anna Lucasta (14-Jan-1959) · Anna Lucasta
St. Louis Blues (7-Apr-1958)
The Mark of the Hawk (Dec-1957)
New Faces of 1952 (19-Feb-1954) · Herself
Official Website:
http://www.earthakitt.com/
Author of books:
Alone with Me: A New Autobiography (1976, memoir)
Rejuvenate! (It's Never Too Late) (2001, self-help, with Tonya Bolden)
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