Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Age80
Birth DateAugust 6, 1930
Place of BirthChicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Anna Marie WooldridgeAnna MarieGaby LeeGaby Woolridge
Abbey Lincoln
August 6, 1930 – 2010
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
Great Performances
1971
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Oscars
1953
The Name of the Game
1968
All in the Family
1971
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
Short Walk to Daylight
1972
For Love of Ivy
1968
Nothing But a Man
1964
How It Feels to Be Free
2021