Linda Hopkins

Acting • AGE 92

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 blue...

Acting

Cries in the Dark

Mom

2006

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)

2005

Piano Blues

Self (archive footage)

2003

Leprechaun 2

Housewife

1994

Black and Blue: A Musical Revue

Singer

1993

The Colored Museum

Aunt Ethel

1991

Disorderlies

Buffy's Mother

1987

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Sister McCandless

1984

Honkytonk Man

Blues Singer

1982

Champs-Elysées

Self

1982

Purlie

Sister Hopkins

1981

Roots: The Next Generations

Singer

1979

Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s

Self

1976

The Education of Sonny Carson

Lil Boy's Mother

1974

Great Performances

Aunt Ethel

1971

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

1962

Rockin' the Blues

Self

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

1956