Billie Holiday
Biography
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.
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Acting History
2021
This Is Pop as Self (archive footage)
2020Billie as self
2019The Apollo as Self (archive footage)
2015Billie Holiday: A Sensation as Self (archive footage)
2013Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas as Self (archive footage)
2007Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit as Herself
2006Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2005Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection as Herself
2005Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2002Strange Fruit as Self
2002It's Black Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
2002Billie on Billie as Herself
2001Jazz as Self (archive footage)
1990Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
1984The Long Night of Lady Day
1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1951'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
1947New Orleans as Endie
1935Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life as Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
1933Emperor Jones as Extra in Nightclub Scene