Lena Horne
Born June 30, 1917 (Age: 108)
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City. During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather.
Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums.
She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City.
During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
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Filmography
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
2006
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 89
Judy Garland Duets
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 87
The Incomparable Lena Horne
2004
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as
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Age: 87
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
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as
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Age: 87
The Harlem Renaissance
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 86
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 86
It's Black Entertainment
2002
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 84
That's Entertainment! III
1994
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as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
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Age: 77
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 76
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
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as Self
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Age: 75
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 73
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Wiz
1978
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as Glinda the Good
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Age: 61
Sesame Street at Night?
1977
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 59
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 58
That's Entertainment!
1974
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 56
No Image
Keep U.S. Beautiful
1973
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as Self
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Age: 55
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
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as Claire Quintana
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Age: 51
Now!
1965
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 47
Beyond the Riviera
1960
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as
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Age: 43
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
1960
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as Self - Singer
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Age: 42
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
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as Self
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Age: 41
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
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as Lena Horne
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Age: 38
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
1955
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as Self
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Age: 37
Duchess of Idaho
1950
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as Lena Horne
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Age: 33
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
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as Lena Horne (segment "Love")
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Age: 28
No Image
Harlem Hotshots
1945
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 27
Panama Hattie
1942
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as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)
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Age: 25