Abbey Lincoln

Actor

Born: August 6, 1930
Died: August 14, 2010 (age 80)
From: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Self (archive footage)
How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
Self (archival footage)
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln (2005)
Self
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Lillian Gilliam
Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Dorella
For Love of Ivy (1968)
Ivy Moore
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Josie
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Herself