Acting

Billie Holiday

Born 1915-04-07 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died 1959-07-17

Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.

Credits

Newest first

Tonta que soy
Music
2026
This Is Pop
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Sweet Thing
Music
2020
Billie
as self
2020
Strange Fruit
Writer
2020
The Apollo
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Billie Holiday: A Sensation
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
as Herself
2007
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
as Herself
2005
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
Strange Fruit
as Self
2002
It's Black Entertainment
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Billie on Billie
as Herself
2002
Jazz
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
1990
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
as Self (archive footage)
1985
The Long Night of Lady Day
1984
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Lady Sings the Blues
Book
1972
Diary Films I - V
Music
1971
'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
1951
New Orleans
as Endie
1947
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
as Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
1935
Emperor Jones
as Extra in Nightclub Scene
1933