Acting
Linda Hopkins
1924 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
15 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Leprechaun 2
Housewife
Disorderlies
Buffy's Mother
Honkytonk Man
Blues Singer
Piano Blues
Self (archive footage)
The Unpredictable Pudgy!
Herself
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Sister McCandless
The Education of Sonny Carson
Lil Boy's Mother
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
Cries in the Dark
Mom
Rockin' the Blues
Self
Purlie
Sister Hopkins
The Colored Museum
Aunt Ethel