About
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.
Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat2024 · Self (archive footage)
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes2023 · Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)2021 · Self (archive footage)
How It Feels to Be Free2021 · Self (archival footage)
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln2005 · Self
Mo' Better Blues1990 · Lillian Gilliam
Short Walk to Daylight1972 · Dorella
For Love of Ivy1968 · Ivy Moore
Nothing But a Man1964 · Josie
The Girl Can't Help It1956 · Herself