Abbey Lincoln
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 6, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- August 14, 2010
- Movies
- 10
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.
Best-Known Movies
6.5
Mo' Better Blues
1990
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
6.3
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
7.8
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
7.4
Nothing But a Man
1964
6.2
For Love of Ivy
1968
6.7
Short Walk to Daylight
1972
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
2005
Filmography
| 2024 | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes | Self |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | How It Feels to Be Free | Self (archival footage) |
| 2005 | Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln | Self |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Lillian Gilliam |
| 1972 | Short Walk to Daylight | Dorella |
| 1968 | For Love of Ivy | Ivy Moore |
| 1964 | Nothing But a Man | Josie |
| 1956 | The Girl Can't Help It | Herself |
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