Abbey Lincoln

🎬 Actor

Born

6 August 1930 (95)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as

Anna Marie Wooldridge, Anna Marie

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.