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

Mission: Impossible

as Millie Webster

Mo' Better Blues

as Lillian Gilliam

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

as Self

All in the Family

as Laura Grant

The Oscars

as Self

The Girl Can't Help It

as Herself

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

as Self (archive footage)

Nothing But a Man

as Josie

Great Performances

as Self

The Name of the Game

as Claudia Lee