Billie Holiday
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday7 April 1915
Died17 July 1959 (age 44)
Place of birthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known credits26
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.
This Is Pop
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Sweet Thing
2020 · Music
Billie
2020 · self
Strange Fruit
2020 · Writer
The Apollo
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Billie Holiday: A Sensation
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
2007 · Herself
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
2005 · Herself
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
Strange Fruit
2002 · Self
It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Billie on Billie
2002 · Herself
Jazz
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
1990 · Self (archive footage)
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
1990
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
1985 · Self (archive footage)
The Long Night of Lady Day
1984
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
Lady Sings the Blues
1972 · Book
Diary Films I - V
1971 · Music
'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
1951
New Orleans
1947 · Endie
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
1935 · Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
Emperor Jones
1933 · Extra in Nightclub Scene
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