Abbey Lincoln
Acting · Born Aug 6, 1930 · Died Aug 14, 2010 (80) · 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.
Known for
Films
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
20247.8
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
20217.6
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
2005
Mo' Better Blues
19906.5
Short Walk to Daylight
19726.7
For Love of Ivy
19686.2
Nothing But a Man
19647.4
