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Linda Hopkins
Acting
14 Dec 1924
† 10 Apr 2017
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, United States, the second child of the Reverend Fred Matthews, Sr. and Hazel Smith, Hopkins grew up in the section of New Orleans known by the locals as "Zion City". She went to school in "Gert Town" wh...
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Linda Hopkins's Movies
55%
Leprechaun 2
08 Apr 1994
64%
Honkytonk Man
15 Dec 1982
49%
Disorderlies
14 Aug 1987
74%
Cries in the Dark
15 Sept 2006
65%
Piano Blues
04 Oct 2003
63%
Go Tell It on the Mountain
31 Aug 1984
57%
The Education of Sonny Carson
17 Jul 1974
65%
Purlie
12 Oct 1981
72%
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
07 Aug 2005
60%
Rockin' the Blues
11 Oct 1956
0%
The Colored Museum
01 Feb 1991
0%
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
17 Feb 1993
0%
Umbria Jazz Story
01 Jul 1993
0%
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
14 Mar 1976
