Acting
Lena Horne
1917-06-30 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Known for
The Cosby Show
The Muppet Show
The Wiz
Sanford and Son
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
A Different World
That's Entertainment!
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Ziegfeld Follies
Stormy Weather
Reading Rainbow
Cabin in the Sky
That's Entertainment, Part II
Now!
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie credits · 58
How It Feels to Be Free
Sid & Judy
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Storm in My Heart
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Judy Garland Duets
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
An Evening With Lena Horne
The Incomparable Lena Horne
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
The Harlem Renaissance
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
It's Black Entertainment
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
That's Entertainment! III
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Aretha Franklin: Duets
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
Night of 100 Stars II
DTV: Golden Oldies
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Night of 100 Stars
Command Performance: The Stars Salute the President
The Wiz
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment!
Keep U.S. Beautiful
Death of a Gunfighter
Now!
Beyond the Riviera
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
The All-Star Christmas Show
Meet Me in Las Vegas
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Duchess of Idaho
TV credits · 34
Hollywood Black
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
A Different World
American Masters
The Cosby Show
Reading Rainbow
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Muppet Show
Keep US Beautiful
Sanford and Son
Great Performances
The Flip Wilson Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Dean Martin Show
The Hollywood Palace
The Judy Garland Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Password
The DuPont Show of the Week
The Bell Telephone Hour
Kraft Music Hall
The Twentieth Century
The Perry Como Show
The Steve Allen Show
Tony Awards
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
MGM Parade
Music 55
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
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