Linda Hopkins
Acting
Born December 14, 1924 — Died April 10, 2017
From New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
Linda Hopkins (born Melinda Helen Matthews; December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was a Tony Award-winning American actress and blues and gospel singer. She recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes. Hopkins was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Un...
Filmography
Cries in the Dark
Mom
20067.4
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
20057.2
Piano Blues
Self (archive footage)
20036.5
Leprechaun 2
Housewife
19945.5
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Umbria Jazz Story
herself
1993
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
Singer
1993
The Colored Museum
Aunt Ethel
1991
Disorderlies
Buffy's Mother
19874.9
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Sister McCandless
19846.3
Honkytonk Man
Blues Singer
19826.3
Purlie
Sister Hopkins
19816.5
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
Self
1976
The Education of Sonny Carson
Lil Boy's Mother
19745.7
Rockin' the Blues
Self
19566.0