Abbey Lincoln
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 6, 1930
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- August 14, 2010
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.
Movies with Abbey Lincoln
- Mo' Better Blues 1990 · ★ 6.5
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021 · ★ 7.6
- The Girl Can't Help It 1956 · ★ 6.3
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024 · ★ 7.8
- Nothing But a Man 1964 · ★ 7.4
- For Love of Ivy 1968 · ★ 6.2
- Short Walk to Daylight 1972 · ★ 6.7
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes 2023
- How It Feels to Be Free 2021
- Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln 2005