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.

Filmography

• 2026Tonta que soy — Music
• 2020Strange Fruit — Writer
• 2020Sweet Thing — Music
• 2006Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
• 2005Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
• 1990Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
• 1984The Long Night of Lady Day
• 1972Lady Sings the Blues — Book
• 1971Diary Films I - V — Music
• 1951'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
• 1947New Orleans — Endie
• 1933Emperor Jones — Extra in Nightclub Scene

Appearances as themselves (15)

• This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Billie — self
• 2019The Apollo — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Billie Holiday: A Sensation — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit — Herself
• 2005Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection — Herself
• 2002Billie on Billie — Herself
• 2002It's Black Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Strange Fruit — Self
• Jazz — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs — Self (archive footage)
• 1985Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• 1935Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life — Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)