Lena Horne
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-30 (93 years old)
Deathday
2010-05-09
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known As
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
Lena Horne
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 ...
Acting
1978
as Glinda the Good
1945
as Lena Horne (segment "Love")
1943
as Selina Rogers
1943
as Lena Horne
1946
as Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
1986
1944
as Fernway de la Fer
1944
as Specialty
1969
as Claire Quintana
1993
as Self
1938
as Ethel Andrews
1994
as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1943
as Georgia Brown
1950
as Lena Horne
2010
as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
1965
as Self (voice)
1943
as Herself
1943
as Herself
2006
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Lene
1948
as Lena Horne
1990
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as self
1974
as (archive footage)
1985
as Self
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1956
as Lena Horne
1945
as (archive footage)
1946
as Herself
1984
as Self
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Herself
1955
as Self
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1942
as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)
1976
as (archive footage)
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1960
as Self - Singer
2019
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
2021
as Self (archival footage)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1999
as Self
1994
as Self (archive footage)
1982
as Self
1977
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1965
as Music
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