Person
Abbey Lincoln
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 6, 1930
- Died
- Aug 14, 2010
- 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.
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Mission: Impossible
Mo' Better Blues
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
All in the Family
The Oscars
The Girl Can't Help It
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Nothing But a Man
Great Performances
The Name of the Game
For Love of Ivy
American Playhouse
Short Walk to Daylight
The Steve Allen Show
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
How It Feels to Be Free
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln