Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/6/1930
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Anna Marie WooldridgeAnna MarieGaby Lee
Abbey Lincoln
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.
Known For
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self
For Love of Ivy
as Ivy Moore
The Girl Can't Help It
as Herself
Mo' Better Blues
as Lillian Gilliam
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
as Self (archive footage)
Nothing But a Man
as Josie
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
Short Walk to Daylight
as Dorella
How It Feels to Be Free
as Self (archival footage)
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
as Self