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Joan Baez

Highest Rated: 100% The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan Newport 1963-1965 (2007)

Lowest Rated: 29% Captain Mike Across America (2007)

Birthday: Jan 9, 1941

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Birthplace: Staten Island, New York, USA

A towering figure in the history of American folk music, Joan Baez's stunning, operatic soprano stirred the hearts and minds of millions of listeners over the course of a legendary four-decade career marked by a commitment to roots music and human rights. She rose from the Cambridge, MA folk scene of the late 1950s before giving a star-making performance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Baez soon began recording for Vanguard in 1960, singing traditional blues and ballads before championing new songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs and most notably, Bob Dylan, with whom she would enjoy a brief but legendary romantic relationship in the early 1960s. While many of her folk peers fell off the musical radar or moved into pop and rock, Baez remained deeply committed to the scene and the social causes it supported through song, which often put her at odds with mainstream America. But throughout her career, which encompassed chart success in the mid-1970s with songs like "Diamonds and Rust" and "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down," as well as a rootless period without a label in the 1980s, Baez remained loyal to the ideals on which she had forged her public identity: the rights of the individual in the face of political, social and societal oppression. Her flawless voice, passionate songwriting and political ideology made Baez one of the most acclaimed folk music figures of the 20th century.

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Highest rated movies

100% 95% The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan Newport 1963-1965
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100% 92% Woodstock
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100% 89% 4 Little Girls
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94% 82% Joan Baez I Am a Noise
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92% 81% Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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91% 92% Dont Look Back
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79% 71% The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
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38% 65% Renaldo and Clara
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29% 35% Captain Mike Across America
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Renegade Dreamers
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Filmography

Movies

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94% 82% Joan Baez I Am a Noise Self $647.6K 2023
92% 81% Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese The Balladeer (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Renegade Dreamers Self - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Tatanka Unknown (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 83% Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis Unknown (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 88% Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action Self - 2008
100% 95% The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan Newport 1963-1965 Unknown (Character) - 2007
29% 35% Captain Mike Across America Unknown (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The March Unknown (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 82% Smothered: The Great Smothers Brothers Censorship Wars Unknown (Character) - 2002
100% 89% 4 Little Girls Original Music $130.1K 1997
79% 71% The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Unknown (Character) $4.5K 1993
38% 65% Renaldo and Clara Woman in White (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebration at Big Sur Unknown (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 65% Dynamite Chicken Self - 1971
100% 92% Woodstock Self $20.8K 1970
91% 92% Dont Look Back Self - 1967

TV

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No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet 20/20 Guest 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fame Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
100% 90% The Muppet Show Guest 1980