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About Josephine Baker
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.
Everything about Josephine Baker →- Occupation
- singer, vedette, film actor, street artist
- Citizenship
- United States, France
- Born
- June 3, 1906
- Died
- April 12, 1975
- Website
- http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/