Linda Hopkins
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA — Dec 14 1924• Died Apr 10 2017
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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" which bordered the Xavier University of Louisiana. Known as "…
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Linda Hopkins's Credits
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Great Performances
Aunt Ethel
Roots: The Next Generations
Singer
Leprechaun 2
Housewife
Honkytonk Man
Blues Singer
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
Piano Blues
Self (archive footage)
Cries in the Dark
Mom
Disorderlies
Buffy's Mother
Purlie
Sister Hopkins
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Sister McCandless
The Education of Sonny Carson
Lil Boy's Mother
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
Singer
The Colored Museum
Aunt Ethel
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
Self
Umbria Jazz Story
herself
Rockin' the Blues
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee