Lena Horne
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
88
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-30
Day of death
2010-05-09 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Great Performances
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Cosby Show
Reading Rainbow
A Different World
What's My Line?
American Masters
Sanford and Son
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Steve Allen Show
Kraft Music Hall
The Flip Wilson Show
The Oscars
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Muppet Show
The Dean Martin Show
Your Show of Shows
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Hollywood Palace
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Wiz
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Sid & Judy
Password
Sesame Street: Learning About Letters
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Broadway Rhythm
Death of a Gunfighter
Boogie-Woogie Dream
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
Ziegfeld Follies
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Words and Music
How It Feels to Be Free
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Beyond the Riviera
Duchess of Idaho
The Judy Garland Show
Sesame Street at Night?
Meet Me in Las Vegas
The Twentieth Century
DTV: Golden Oldies
The Duke Is Tops
Night of 100 Stars
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Swing Fever
Thousands Cheer
Mantan Messes Up
Keep US Beautiful
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show - To the Ladies
The Perry Como Show
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Swingtime Jamboree
The DuPont Show of the Week
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Incomparable Lena Horne
Judy Garland Duets
That's Entertainment!
The Harlem Renaissance
Music 55
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Night of 100 Stars II
That's Entertainment! III
Now!
Two Girls and a Sailor
Till the Clouds Roll By
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
It's Black Entertainment
Panama Hattie
I Dood It
Stormy Weather
Cabin in the Sky
Studio Visit
Harlem Hotshots
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
An Evening With Lena Horne
Storm in My Heart
Honor Coles, Le Danseur De Claquettes Distingue
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
