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Abbey Lincoln
Acting
🎂 August 6, 1930📍 Chicago, Illinois, USA🕯️ August 14, 2010 · Age 80
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.
BODY OF WORK
Abbey Lincoln's Filmography
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024⭐ 7.8
as Self (archive footage)
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
as Self
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021⭐ 7.6
as Self (archive footage)
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How It Feels to Be Free
2021
as Self (archival footage)
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Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
2005
as Self
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Mo' Better Blues
1990⭐ 6.5
as Lillian Gilliam
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Short Walk to Daylight
1972⭐ 6.7
as Dorella
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For Love of Ivy
1968⭐ 6.2
as Ivy Moore
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Nothing But a Man
1964⭐ 7.4
as Josie
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The Girl Can't Help It
1956⭐ 6.3
as Herself