Who is Julie Robinson, Harry Belafontes second wife? Bio, age, family

Belafonte married his costar and second wife, Julie Robinson, shortly after his divorce from Marguerite. Gina and David, the couples children, were also born together. Julie Robinson was born in the United States on September 14, 1928. She is an actress and costume designer who has appeared in films such as Lust for Life (1956),

Belafonte married his costar and second wife, Julie Robinson, shortly after his divorce from Marguerite. Gina and David, the couple’s children, were also born together.

Who is Julie Robinson, Harry Belafonte’s second wife? Bio, age, family

Julie Robinson was born in the United States on September 14, 1928. She is an actress and costume designer who has appeared in films such as Lust for Life (1956), A Safe Place (1971), and Buck and the Preacher (1972).

Robinson and Belafonte met on the set of the 1954 picture Carmen Jones. Robinson was seeing Marlon Brando at the time, but she soon began writing love letters to Belafonte, which his first wife, Marguerite, found.

While making his 1957 film Island in the Sun, Belafonte sought to keep his divorce from Marguerite and marriage to Robinson covert, but the news eventually became public.

According to The New Yorker, Marguerite, and Robinson became “good friends” over time. In a 1996 profile, the source stated, “The children of Belafonte’s second marriage, David and Gina, are genuinely close to those of his first.”

After 47 years of marriage, Belafonte and Robinson split in 2004, when the humanitarian was 77 years old. “I felt angry and trapped, but then I’d always felt that way,” he wrote in his 2011 memoir My Song: A Memoir of his second marriage. Trapped by my mother, poverty, and the sense of duty I felt for the world’s underprivileged.”

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