Cast & creator
Billie Holiday
Best known for This Is Pop, Jazz, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.
25
film credits
2
television credits
22
1933–2026 · acting roles
7.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (27)
Showing 27 of 27 credits
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
2021
Jazz
Self (archive footage)
2001
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
It's Black Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
2002
Lady Sings the Blues
Book
1972
Sweet Thing
Music
2020
The Apollo
Self (archive footage)
2019
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Self (archive footage)
1990
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
Self (archive footage)
1985
Strange Fruit
Self
2002
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
Billie
self
2020
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
Self (archive footage)
2013
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
Herself
2005
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
1935
Emperor Jones
Extra in Nightclub Scene
1933
New Orleans
Endie
1947'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
1951The Long Night of Lady Day
1984
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Billie Holiday: A Sensation
Self (archive footage)
2015
Diary Films I - V
Music
1971
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
1990Billie on Billie
Herself
2002
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
Herself
2007
Strange Fruit
Writer
2020Tonta que soy
Music
2026