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name: "Abbey Lincoln"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/abbey-lincoln"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 August 1930"
died: "14 August 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-17T05:47:17.503075+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Abbey Lincoln

Actor. Born 6 August 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 14 August 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 August 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 14 August 2010
- **Active:** 1971–2021
- **Also known as:** Anna Marie Wooldridge, Anna Marie, Gaby Lee, Gaby Woolridge
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 82 (1), 2020s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231071, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511085/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/174651

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)*](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md) (87)

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## Biography

Abbey Lincoln, born Anna Marie Wooldridge on 6 August 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, and who died on 14 August 2010 in New York City, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and actress. She performed under several early stage names including Gaby Lee, Anna Marie and Gaby Woolridge before adopting the professional name Abbey Lincoln in 1956.

Lincoln began her career singing in nightclubs and appeared in films such as *The Girl Can't Help It* (1956), *Nothing But a Man* (1964), *For Love of Ivy* (1968) and *Mo' Better Blues* (1990). She had television roles including in *Mission: Impossible* (1966) and *All in the Family* (1971), and featured via archive footage in *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021). She was married to jazz drummer Max Roach from 1962 to 1970 and was active in the civil rights movement from the 1960s. In 2003 she received the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, blackpast.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), Fi1m 87, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md)
- *All in the Family* (1971), Fi1m 82, as Laura Grant — [page](https://film.one/tv/all-in-the-family.md)

## Also known for

- *Mo' Better Blues* (1990), Lillian Gilliam
- *The Oscars* (1953), Self
- *The Girl Can't Help It* (1956), Herself
- *Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat* (2024), Self (archive footage)

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