Linda Hopkins
Actor
Born December 14, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
Filmography
Cries in the Dark
Mom
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
Piano Blues
Self (archive footage)
Leprechaun 2
Housewife
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
Singer
The Colored Museum
Aunt Ethel
Disorderlies
Buffy's Mother
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Sister McCandless
Honkytonk Man
Blues Singer
Champs-Elysées
Self
American Playhouse
Sister McCandless
Purlie
Sister Hopkins
Roots: The Next Generations
Singer
Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s
Self
The Education of Sonny Carson
Lil Boy's Mother
Great Performances
Aunt Ethel
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Rockin' the Blues
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee