Actor info
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Name :
Josephine Baker
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Born :
June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (68 years at death)
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Died :
April 12, 1975
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Female
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Film career :
31 films (1925–2025)
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Also known as :
Freda Josephine McDonald, Joséphine Baker
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Biography
Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s.
Notable films
- Bardot (2025) as archive footage
- Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- Variety carousel (1955)
- The French Way (1940) as Zazu Clarion
- Siren of the Tropics (1927) as Papitou
