Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/14/1924
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Linda Hopkins
Biography
Linda Hopkins (born Melinda Helen Matthews; December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was a Tony Award-winning American actress and blues and gospel singer. She recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes.
Hopkins was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, the second child of the Reverend Fred Matthews, Sr. and Hazel Smith, Hopkins grew up in the section of New Orleans known by the locals as "Zion City". She went to school in "Gert Town" which bordered the Xavier University of Louisiana.
Known as "Lil Helen Matthews" as a child, she was ...
Known For
Honkytonk Man
as Blues Singer
Piano Blues
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
Purlie
as Sister Hopkins
Cries in the Dark
as Mom
The Colored Museum
as Aunt Ethel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Sister McCandless
Leprechaun 2
as Housewife
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
as Singer
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
as Self
Rockin' the Blues
as Self
The Education of Sonny Carson
as Lil Boy's Mother