Josephine Baker

✶June 3, 1906

†April 12, 1975

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Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, and a spy for the French Resistance. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

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