Acting credits
80
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Lena Horne
Acting
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Movies: 50Series: 30Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 92900
IMDb ID: nm0395043
Known for: Acting
Born: June 30, 1917
Died: May 9, 2010
Age: 92
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1938 - 2021
Years active: 84
Average TMDB rating: 6.87
Wikidata: Q112307
Also known as
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
Other jobs
Music (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lena Horne.
How It Feels to Be Free
as Self (archival footage)
2021 Movie
7.4
Sid & Judy
as Self (archive footage)
2019 Movie
7.7
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
2019 Movie
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
2010 Movie
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
2006 Movie
Judy Garland Duets
as Self (archive footage)
2005 Movie
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005 Movie
An Evening With Lena Horne
as self
2005 Movie
The Incomparable Lena Horne
2004 Movie
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004 Movie
6.0
The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)
2004 Movie
4.0
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
2004 Movie
8.0
It's Black Entertainment
as Self (archive footage)
2002 Movie
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999 Movie
7.0
That's Entertainment! III
as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1994 Movie
7.0
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
1994 Movie
8.0
Aretha Franklin: Duets
as Self
1993 Movie
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
1990 Movie
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
as Self
1986 Movie
8.0
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985 Movie
DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
1984 Movie
6.7
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982 Movie
6.1
The Wiz
as Glinda the Good
1978 Movie
Sesame Street at Night?
as Self (archive footage)
1977 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lena Horne.
3.9
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self • 2 eps
1996 Series
7.0
A Different World
as Self • 1 eps
1987 Series
7.5
American Masters
as Self • 1 eps
1986 Series
7.0
The Cosby Show
as Lena Horne • 1 eps
1984 Series
8.4
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1983 Series
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
8.0
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star / Lola Bramswell • 1 eps
1976 Series
7.4
Sanford and Son
1 eps
1972 Series
5.8
Great Performances
as Self • 1 eps
1971 Series
4.6
The Flip Wilson Show
as Self • 3 eps
1970 Series
6.6
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited) • 4 eps
1968 Series
7.3
The Dean Martin Show
3 eps
1965 Series
4.5
The Hollywood Palace
as Self • 1 eps
1964 Series
8.0
The Judy Garland Show
as Self • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 3 eps
1962 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 3 eps
1961 Series
7.2
Password
2 eps
1961 Series
6.0
The DuPont Show of the Week
as Self • 1 eps
1961 Series
7.3
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self - Host • 1 eps
1959 Series
4.7
Kraft Music Hall
1 eps
1958 Series
8.0
The Twentieth Century
1 eps
1957 Series
7.3
The Perry Como Show
5 eps
1956 Series
5.6
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer • 1 eps
1956 Series
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1 eps
1955 Series