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Abbey Lincoln
Actor, Composer
Born August 6, 1930Died August 14, 2010 (80 years)
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
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues · as Lillian Gilliam |
| 1972 | Short Walk to Daylight · as Dorella |
| 1971 | All in the Family (TV Series) · as Laura Grant |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Judge Mabel Palmer |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Claudia Lee |
| 1968 | For Love of Ivy · as Ivy Moore |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible (TV Series) · as Millie Webster |
| 1964 | Nothing But a Man · as Josie |