Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1930-08-06
Day of Death
2010-08-14
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Abbey Lincoln
Biography
Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material.
Filmography (10)
⭐ 7.8
Role:
Self (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
⭐ 7.6
Role:
Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
⭐ 0
Role:
Self (archival footage)
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
2005
⭐ 6.5
Role:
Lillian Gilliam
Mo' Better Blues
1990
⭐ 6.7
Role:
Dorella
Short Walk to Daylight
1972
⭐ 6.2
Role:
Ivy Moore
For Love of Ivy
1968
⭐ 7.4
Role:
Josie
Nothing But a Man
1964
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Herself