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Nina Simone (I) (1933–2003)

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Her first hit recording was her rendition of the classic song "I Loves You, Porgy", from Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess". See more trivia »

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Filmography

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2011-2013 Gent de paraula (TV series)
Episode #3.21 (2013) (performer: "My Way")
Episode #3.12 (2012) (performer: "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands")
Episode #2.12 (2011) (performer: "My Way")
 
2012 Scandal (TV series)
Spies Like Us (2012) ("I Think It's Going To Rain Today" - uncredited)
 
2012/I Sparkle (performer: "Feling Good")
 
2012 Person of Interest (TV series)
Flesh and Blood (2012) (performer: "Ne me quitte pas" "Don't Leave Me" - uncredited)
 
2012 Sherlock (TV series)
The Reichenbach Fall (2012) (performer: "Sinnerman" - uncredited)
 
2011 Cuéntame (TV series)
Gajes del oficio (2011) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
2011 The Intouchables (performer: "Feeling Good")
 
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love. (performer: "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair")
 
2009-2011 So You Think You Can Dance (TV series)
4 of 20 Voted Off (2011) (performer: "Sinnerman")
Meet the Top 20 (2011) (performer: "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter")
Two of Six Voted Off (2009) (performer: "I Put A Spell On You")
Top Six Perform (2009) (performer: "I Put A Spell On You")
 
2011 Another Happy Day (performer: "Everything >Must Change")
 
2011 Sing Your Song (documentary) (writer: "Mississippi Goddam" / performer: "Mississippi Goddam")
 
2010 The Last Shot 2 (short) ("Sinnerman")
 
2007-2010 Banda sonora (TV series)
Episode #6.2 (2010) (performer: "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free")
Episode #5.18 (2009) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
Episode #1.6 (2007) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
2010 For Colored Girls (writer: "Four Women" / performer: "Four Women")
 
2010 Barney's Version (performer: "Turn Me On")
 
2010 Luther (TV series)
Episode #1.6 (2010) (performer: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood")
 
2010 Chuck (TV series)
Chuck Versus the Honeymooners (2010) (performer: "Feeling Good" - uncredited)
 
2010 Repo Men (performer: "Feeling Good")
 
2010 On Expenses (TV movie) ("Feeling Good")
 
2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money (documentary) (writer: "SINNERMAN" / performer: "SINNERMAN")
 
2009 Ghost Whisperer (TV series)
Till Death Do Us Start (2009) (performer: "If I Should Lose You" - uncredited)
 
2009 V.O.S. (performer: "To Love Somebody")
 
2009 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
Round Four (2009) ("I Put A Spell on You" - uncredited)
 
2009 Tales of the Black Freighter (video short) (performer: "Pirate Jenny")
 
2009 I Love You Phillip Morris (performer: "To Love Somebody")
 
2008 The Starter Wife (TV series)
The Diary of a Mad Ex-Housewife (2008) (performer: "Do I Move You?" - uncredited)
 
2008 Hold-up à l'italienne (TV movie) ("Sinnerman")
 
2008/II Home (performer: "Wild is the Wind")
 
2008 Sex and the City (performer: "The Look of Love Madison Park vs. Lenny B Remix")
 
2008 Queridos Amigos (TV mini-series)
Episode #1.1 (2008) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
2008 What Just Happened (performer: "Mr. Bojangles")
 
2008 First Sunday (writer: "Get By" / performer: "Get By")
 
2007 Men in Trees (TV series)
Sea Change (2007) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me" - uncredited)
 
2007 The World Unseen (performer: "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free")
 
2007 Entourage (TV series)
The WeHo Ho (2007) (performer: "Sinnerman")
 
2007 Perfect Stranger (performer: "I Put a Spell on You")
 
2007 America the Beautiful (documentary) (performer: "I Put A Spell On You")
 
2007 The Reaping (performer: "Take Me to the Water" / arranger: "Take Me to the Water")
 
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV series)
Episode #1.9 (2007) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
2007 The Windsurfing Movie (video) ("Sinnerman")
 
2007 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (documentary) (performer: "To Love Somebody")
 
2007 En clau de vi (TV series)
 
2007 A Very British Gangster (documentary) (performer: "Sinnerman" / arranger: "Sinnerman")
 
2006 The Art of Negative Thinking (performer: "Keeper of The Flame")
 
2006 The Last Winter (performer: "My Baby Just Cares For Me")
 
2006 Golden Door (performer: "Feeling good", "Sinnerman")
 
2006 Inland Empire (performer: "Sinner Man" / arranger: "Sinner Man")
 
2006 My Brother (writer: "Get By" / as N. Simone)
 
2006 Miami Vice (performer: "Sinnerman Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix" / arranger: "Sinnerman Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix")
 
2006 Park (performer: "The Pusher")
 
2006 Confetti (performer: "Marriage Is for Old Folks")
 
2006 Life on Mars (TV series)
Episode #1.7 (2006) (performer: "Sinnerman")
Episode #1.5 (2006) (performer: "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free")
 
2006 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2006) (writer: "Old Jim Crow It¹s All Over Now", "Mississippi Goddam" / performer: "Old Jim Crow It¹s All Over Now", "Mississippi Goddam")
 
2006 Last Holiday (performer: "Feeling Good")
 
2006 Wild Tigers I Have Known (performer: "When I Was in My Prime")
 
2005 Kinky Boots (performer: "Wild Is the Wind" 1957, "I Put a Spell on You" 1956)
 
2005 Block Party (documentary) (writer: "Get By")
 
2005 Indigo Prophecy (Video Game) (performer: "No Good Man")
 
2005 Cold Case (TV series)
Strange Fruit (2005) (performer: "Strange Fruit")
 
2005 Raveling (short) (performer: "I Get Along Without You Very Well Except Sometimes")
 
2005 The Ballad of Jack and Rose (performer: "I Put a Spell on You" 1956)
 
2004 Cellular (performer: "Sinnerman Felix da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix", "Sinnerman" / "Sinnerman Felix da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix", "Sinnerman")
 
2004 La columna (TV series)
Episode dated 9 July 2004 (2004) (performer: "My Way")
 
2004 Before Sunset (performer: "Just In Time")
 
2003 Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (documentary) (writer: "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" / performer: "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl")
 
2003 In the City (writer: "Sugar in My Bowl" / performer: "Sugar in My Bowl", "Love Me or Leave Me")
 
2003 Hormoner og andre demoner (short) (performer: "Wild Is The Wind")
 
2003 Nina Simone: Live at Ronnie Scott's (video) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares For Me", "For A While")
 
2002 Montreal Writer (documentary short) ("My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
2002 American Dreams (TV series)
 
2002 The Wire (TV series)
Old Cases (2002) (writer: "Sugar in My Bowl" / performer: "Sugar in My Bowl")
 
2002 The Salton Sea (writer: "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl" / performer: "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl")
 
2002 The Dancer Upstairs (performer: "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" 1967)
 
2001 Scrubs (TV series)
My Own Personal Jesus (2001) (performer: "Sinner Man")
 
2001 The Parole Officer (performer: "Ain't Got No - I Got Life")
 
2001 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (performer: "Feeling Good")
 
2000 Yoyes (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
1999 Any Given Sunday (performer: "DON'T EXPLAIN")
 
1999 Pitch People (documentary) (performer: "Mood Indigo")
 
1999 In Too Deep (writer: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black")
 
1999 The Thomas Crown Affair (performer: "SINNERMAN" / "SINNERMAN")
 
1998 Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (performer: "Keeper of the Flame")
 
1998 The Big Lebowski (performer: "I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good")
 
1998 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (performer: "Love Me or Leave Me")
 
1997 One Night Stand (performer: "Exactly Like You")
 
1996 Ghosts of Mississippi (performer: "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free")
 
1996 Stealing Beauty (performer: "My Baby Just Cares For Me")
 
1995 The Crossing Guard (writer: "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl")
 
1995 Higher Learning (writer: "TO BE YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK")
 
1994 Shallow Grave (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
1994 Witch Hunt (TV movie) (performer: "I Put a Spell on You")
 
1993 The Night We Never Met (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
1993 Splitting Heirs (performer: "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU")
 
1993 Point of No Return (writer: "I WANT A LITTLE SUGAR IN MY BOWL" / performer: "WILD IS THE WIND", "I WANT A LITTLE SUGAR IN MY BOWL", "FEELING GOOD", "HERE COMES THE SUN", "BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR" / arranger: "BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR")
 
1992 Peter's Friends (performer: "My Baby Just Cares For Me")
 
1989 Valentina (TV series)
Rembrant e le streghe (1989) (performer: "My Baby Just Cares for Me")
 
1969 79 primaveras (documentary short) (writer: "Sinnerman" / performer: "Sinnerman")
 
Show ShowComposer (2 titles)
1990 L'ourse bleue (short)
 
1975 Four Women (short)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2006 Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV series) (thanks - 1 episode)
Episode #18.3 (2006) (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (25 titles)
2012 Joy, It's Nina (documentary short) (voice)
 
2003 Nina Simone: Live at Ronnie Scott's (video)
Herself
 
1999 HARDtalk (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 25 March 1999 (1999) … Herself
Nina Simone (1999) … Herself
 
1993 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.199 (1993) … Herself
 
1992 Nina Simone: La légende (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1991 El programa de Hermida (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 12 October 1991 (1991) … Herself
 
1990 Querido cabaret (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.5 (1990) … Herself
 
1989 Noite de estrelas (TV series)
Herself - Guest (1989)
 
1989 La parada (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.9 (1989) … Herself
 
1987-1988 Sábado noche (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 21 May 1988 (1988) … Herself
Episode dated 3 October 1987 (1987) … Herself
 
1987 Àngel Casas show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.21 (1987) … Herself
 
1986 Ebony/Jet Showcase (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 28 February 1986 (1986) … Herself
 
1982 Brel (documentary)
Herself
 
1972 Sesame Street (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.75 (1972) … Herself
 
1971 Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (documentary short)
Herself
 
1970 ...And Beautiful II (TV movie)
Herself - Singer
 
1969 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.7 (1969) … Herself
 
1969 Festival panafricain d'Alger (documentary)
Herself
 
1968 Frost on Sunday (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.19 (1968) … Herself
 
1968 Nina Simone-The Sound of Soul (TV movie)
Herself
 
1967 Gala der Schallplatte (TV movie)
Herself
 
1967 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.75 (1967) … Herself
 
1967 Dee Time (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.5 (1967) … Herself
 
1965 Ready, Steady, Go! (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.47 (1965) … Herself
Episode #2.45 (1965) … Herself
 
1960 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Pianist / Singer
Episode #13.49 (1960) … Singer/Pianist
Episode #13.32 (1960) … Singer/Pianist
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (8 titles)
2011 Memòries de la tele (TV series)
 
2011 Sing Your Song (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2010 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2010 A polos 25 (TV series)
 
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV series)
 
2006 Wild Tigers I Have Known
Herself (uncredited)
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
 
2000 Playboy: The Party Continues (TV documentary)
Herself
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

CD: "The Blues" (Jive) See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Biographical Movies  | 2 Print Biographies  | 4 Articles  | See more »

Official Sites:

The Official Nina Simone Site | See more »
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Jazz is a white term to define Black people. My music is Black classical music. See more »

Trivia:

Her first hit recording was her rendition of the classic song "I Loves You, Porgy", from Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess". See more »

Nickname:

High Priestess of Soul See more »

Star Sign:

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