Diana Ernestine Earle Ross, born March 26, 1944, is an award-winning singer and actress. Ross served as lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her 1972 role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won 8 American Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977. With a career total 18 #1 records, Diana Ross is considered the most successful female recording artist of the twentieth century. Her film credits include: Mahogany (1975), The Wiz (1978) and the television films Out of Darkness (1994) and Double Platinum (1999). In December 2007, she received a

• The Wiz (1978)

  
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

  
• Mahogany (1975)

  
• Beach Ball (1965)

  
• Out of Darkness (1994)