Abbey Lincoln
Acting
August 6, 1930
Died at age 80
August 14, 2010
Date of Death
Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 Credits
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.
