What to watch | Andra Day dazzles as Billie Holiday in this moving biopic

23 Sep 2021

Sandra Visser

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Andra Day gives an award-worthy performance as American singer Billie Holiday. (PHOTO: Hulu)

Biopic. With Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes and Garrett Hedlund. Director: Lee Daniels.

This shocking yet moving film follows the life of iconic American jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday (Day).

She got the world to sit up and take notice with her controversial 1939 song Strange Fruit about the lynching of African Americans.

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