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Billie Holiday (1915–1959)


Trivia:

Was the common-law wife of trumpeter Joe Guy (1951-1957), but they always identified themselves to people as husband and wife. She was separated from her last husband, Louis McKay, at the time of her death. See more trivia »

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Filmography

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2012 Alcatraz (TV series)
Paxton Petty (2012) (performer: "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You" - uncredited)
 
2011 Page Eight (TV movie) (performer: "Fine and Mellow" written by nm0390507)
 
2010 Banda sonora (TV series)
Episode #6.2 (2010) (writer: "God Bless the Child" / performer: "God Bless the Child")
 
2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV documentary) (performer: "Mandy Is Two", "Trav'lin' Light")
 
2009 Public Enemies (performer: "Love Me or Leave Me" 1928, "The Man I Love" 1924)
 
2009 Black Buenos Aires (writer: "Don't Explain")
 
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary) (performer: "I've Got Those Lost My Man Blues" - uncredited)
 
2009 Watchmen (performer: "You're My Thrill")
 
2008 Fallout 3 (Video Game) (performer: "Crazy He Calls Me")
 
2008 Later with Jools Holland (TV series)
Episode #31.3 (2008) (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
2007 August Rush (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
2007 The War (TV mini-series documentary)
FUBAR: September 1944 - December 1944 (2007) (performer: "Pennies from Heaven")
 
2007 Saneamento Básico, O Filme (performer: "It Had to Be You")
 
2006 The Wire (TV series)
Know Your Place (2006) (performer: "I Cover the Waterfront")
 
2006 The Kovak Box (performer: "Gloomy Sunday")
 
2006 The West Wing (TV series)
The Cold (2006) (performer: "Body & Soul")
 
2005 Stranded in Canton (documentary) (performer: "I wished on the moon")
 
2005 Capote (performer: "Sugar That Sugar Baby o' Mine" 1926)
 
2005 Nynne (performer: "The Man I Love")
 
2005 American Masters (TV series documentary)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) (performer: "Strange Fruit")
 
2005 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton (2005) (performer: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me")
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (writer: "God Bless the Child" / performer: "God Bless the Child")
 
2005 Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (performer: "Sugar")
 
2004 The Notebook (performer: "I'll Be Seeing You" 1937)
 
2004 Ae Fond Kiss... (performer: "Strange Fruit")
 
2003 Anything Else (performer: "Easy to Love", "The Way You Look Tonight", "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me")
 
2003 I Am Woody (short) (performer: "He's Funny That Way", "Sunny Side of the Street")
 
2002 Two Weeks Notice (writer: "God Bless The Child")
 
2002 Novo (writer: "I Love My Man" / performer: "It's Easy To Remember", "I Love My Man")
 
2002 Minority Report (performer: "Solitude" 1934)
 
2002 Sex and the City (TV series)
A 'Vogue' Idea (2002) (performer: "Body and Soul")
 
2002 The Laramie Project (TV movie) (performer: "Let's Dream in the Moonlight")
 
2002 Livshunger (TV series)
Episode #1.4 (2002) ("DID I REMEMBER")
 
2001 Night at the Golden Eagle (writer: "Stormy Blues" / performer: "Stormy Blues")
 
2001 Chelsea Walls (performer: "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" 1934)
 
2001 Read My Lips (writer: "The Child" / performer: "The Child")
 
2000 Burnt Money (performer: "Ill Wind")
 
1999 Angela's Ashes (performer: "Pennies from Heaven")
 
1999 The Green Mile (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love")
 
1999 The Rage: Carrie 2 (writer: "God Bless The Child" / performer: "God Bless The Child", "Comes Love")
 
1998 Celebrity (performer: "Did I Remember To Tell You I Adore You" 1936)
 
1998 Wrestling with Alligators (performer: "I'll Never Fail You")
 
1997 Ulee's Gold (performer: "Sophisticated Lady" / as Billie Holliday)
 
1996 The Funeral (performer: "Gloomy Sunday")
 
1996 Stealing Beauty (performer: "I'll Be Seeing You")
 
1995 The Affair (TV movie) (performer: "Strange Fruit")
 
1995 Se7en (performer: "I Cover the Waterfront")
 
1995 Clueless (performer: "MISS BROWN TO YOU")
 
1995 Cafe Society (writer: "Don't Explain" 1944)
 
1995 Forget Paris (performer: "Love Is Here To Stay", "For All We Know")
 
1995/I Salto al vacío (performer: "All the Way")
 
1994 Corrina, Corrina (performer: "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN")
 
1994 It Could Happen to You (performer: "They Can't Take That Away from Me")
 
1993 Schindler's List (writer: "GOD BLESS THE CHILD" / performer: "GOD BLESS THE CHILD")
 
1993 The Meteor Man (performer: "Them There Eyes")
 
1993 Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (documentary) (performer: "Body and Soul")
 
1992 Forever Young (performer: "The Very Thought of You")
 
1992 Malcolm X (performer: "Big Stuff")
 
1992 Rich in Love (performer: "I Hear Music")
 
1992 Kærlighedens smerte (performer: "You Go to My Head")
 
1992 Equinox (writer: "LEFT ALONE")
 
1991 The Rocketeer (performer: "ANY OLD TIME")
 
1991 Switch (performer: "Lover Man")
 
1991 The Marrying Man (performer: "YOU CAN'T BE MINE AND SOMEONE ELSE'S TOO")
 
1991 Guilty by Suspicion (performer: "THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME")
 
1990 I Hired a Contract Killer (performer: "Time On My Hands")
 
1989 Enemies: A Love Story (performer: "Love Is Here To Stay")
 
1989 Valentina (TV series)
Valentina assassina (1989) (performer: "That Ole Devil Called Love")
Farfalle (1989) (performer: "That Old Devil Called Love")
Jack ama Lulu (1989) (performer: "That Ole Devil Called Love")
Violoncello (1989) (performer: "That Ole Devil Called Love")
 
1989 Harlem Nights (performer: "Just One More Chance")
 
1989 Slaves of New York (performer: "Am I Blue?")
 
1988 Torch Song Trilogy (performer: "What's New?", "But Not for Me")
 
1988 Rocket Gibraltar (writer: "Don't Explain" / performer: "You Better Go Now", "Don't Explain", "Foolin' Myself")
 
1988 Late Night with David Letterman (TV series)
Episode dated 6 July 1988 (1988) (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
1988 Satisfaction (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
1986 Amazing Stories (TV series)
Grandpa's Ghost (1986) (performer: "Good Morning Heartache" - uncredited)
 
1986 Nine 1/2 Weeks (performer: "Strange Fruit")
 
1984 Speed (documentary short) (performer: "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off")
 
1982 The Thing (music: "DON'T EXPLAIN" / performer: "DON'T EXPLAIN")
 
1980 Joe Albany... a Jazz Life (documentary) (writer: "Fine and Mellow")
 
1980 Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (performer: "I'll Be Seeing You", "It's The Same Old Story")
 
1979 Promises in the Dark (performer: "I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEART AND THROW AWAY THE KEY", "GOD BLESS THE CHILD")
 
1978 An Unmarried Woman (performer: "I'm Yours" 1930 - uncredited)
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary) (performer: "Saddest Tale Blues" 1934)
 
1972 Liza with a Z: A Concert for Television (TV special) (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
1972 Fritz the Cat (performer: "Yesterdays" 1952)
 
1970 End of the Road (performer: "Don't Worry 'Bout Me")
 
1969 This Is Tom Jones (TV series documentary)
Episode #2.13 (1969) (writer: "God Bless the Child")
 
1962 Eva ("Willow Weep For Me", "Loveless Love")
 
1950 Panic in the Streets (writer: "Fine and Mellow" - uncredited)
 
1948 Sombre dimanche (performer: "Sombre Dimanche")
 
1947 New Orleans (performer: "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" 1947, "Farewell to Storyville", "The Blues Are Brewin'" 1947, "Endie" 1947)
 
1935 Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (short) (performer: "I've Got Those Lost My Man Blues")
 
Show ShowActress (3 titles)
2011 Strange Fruit (video short) (voice)
 
1947 New Orleans
Endie
 
1933 The Emperor Jones
Extra in Nightclub Scene (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSound Department (1 title)
2011 Bowl of Dreams (documentary) (soundtrack)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
2010 15 Till Midnight (performer: lead singer (song: As Time Goes By - dub remix - )
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1972 Lady Sings the Blues (book)
 
Show ShowSelf (7 titles)
1959 Chelsea at Nine (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.55 (1959) … Herself
 
1957 The Seven Lively Arts (TV series)
Herself
The Sound of Jazz (1957) … Herself
 
1956 Night Beat (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode dated 7 November 1956 (1956) … Herself
 
1954 Tonight! (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.100 (1954) … Herself
 
1953 The Comeback Story (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 16 October 1953 (1953) … Herself
 
1935 Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (short)
Herself - Blues Singer (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (25 titles)
2011 Page Eight (TV movie)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2006 Queens of Heartache (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (video)
Herself
 
2003 My Kinda People (TV movie)
Herself
 
2002 SexTV (TV series documentary)
 
2002 Strange Fruit (documentary)
Herself
 
2002 Standing in the Shadows of Motown (documentary)
Herself
 
2002 It's Black Entertainment (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
2001 Reputations (TV series documentary)
 
2001 Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (TV series documentary)
 
1999 Crossroads (TV documentary)
(Part 1)
 
1999 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (video documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1993 Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1990 Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1990 That's Black Entertainment (documentary)
Herself
 
1989 The Ladies Sing the Blues
Herself
 
1989 Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (documentary)
Herself
 
1986 Brown Sugar (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself
 
1985 Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (documentary)
Herself
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
Herself
 
1971 Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (documentary short)
Herself
 
1970 ...And Beautiful II (TV movie)
Herself - Singer
 

Related Videos

Biography: :  -- A short biography of Billie Holiday. Inside the Actors Studio: Season 12: Episode 5 -- Diana Ross shares the experience of her very first acting role as Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings the Blues."
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Personal Details

Other Works:

CD: "Fine and Mellow--Golden Classics" (Columbia) See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Biographical Movies  | 3 Print Biographies  | 6 Articles  | See more »

Official Sites:

Official Site (CMG Worldwide) | See more »

Height:

5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Was the common-law wife of trumpeter Joe Guy (1951-1957), but they always identified themselves to people as husband and wife. She was separated from her last husband, Louis McKay, at the time of her death. See more »

Trademark:

Gardenia flower in her hair See more »

Nickname:

Lady Day See more »

Star Sign:

Aries