Lena Horne
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1917-06-30
Deathday 2010-05-09 (92 years old)
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 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
Actor
as Self (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Lena Horne
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Glinda the Good
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Claire Quintana
as Self
as Self (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Singer
as Self - Host
as Self
as Lena Horne
as Self - Singer
as Self - Recipient / Performer
as Self - Co-Hostess
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Host
as Herself
as Self
as Lena Horne
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Lena Horne
as Self
as Self - Vocalist
as Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne
as Herself
as Lene
as Herself
as Lena Horne (segment "Love")
as (archive footage)
as Specialty
as Fernway de la Fer
as Herself
as Lena Horne
as Herself
as Selina Rogers
as Georgia Brown
as As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited)
as Ethel Andrews
Sound
as Music