Abbey Lincoln
Actor
- Born
- August 6, 1930 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- August 14, 2010 (age 80)
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.
Known for
Mo' Better Blues
August 3, 1990
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
July 2, 2021
The Girl Can't Help It
December 22, 1956
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
September 11, 2024
Nothing But a Man
December 27, 1964
For Love of Ivy
July 17, 1968
Short Walk to Daylight
October 24, 1972
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
March 12, 2023
How It Feels to Be Free
January 18, 2021
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
January 1, 2005
Acting10
- 2024Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes as Self
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self (archive footage)
- 2021How It Feels to Be Free as Self (archival footage)
- 2005Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln as Self
- 1990Mo' Better Blues as Lillian Gilliam
- 1972Short Walk to Daylight as Dorella
- 1968For Love of Ivy as Ivy Moore
- 1964Nothing But a Man as Josie
- 1956