Sidney Poitier

Bahamian-American actor, ambassador, and film director Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor back in 1964. He was the first Afro-Bahamian and first black male actor to win the award and is given credit as the earliest surviving and oldest living Best Actor Academy Award winner. He served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan for ten years from 1997 to 2007. He earned his debut role in Broadway in an all-black production of Lysistrata in 1946 and eventually moved to films four years later.

Poitier, at the age of 93 years old, has a total net worth of $25 million and was an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen back in 1974. He truly has made an impact in Hollywood and was indeed the man to break the color barrier in an era of white men.