Abbey Lincoln
Acting
August 6, 1930
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Short Walk to Daylight
1972
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Nothing But a Man
1964
For Love of Ivy
1968
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
2005
