Actresses

Eleanor Boardman (August 19, 1898 – December 12, 1991) was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies. Early life and career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boardman was originally on stage but she temporarily lost her voice so entered silent films in 1922. There followed months of fruitless effort until one day Rupert Hughes saw her riding a horse and gave her a part in a film and she quickly began to attract audiences. She was chosen by Goldwyn Pictures as their "New Face of 1922," through which she signed a contract with the company. After several successful supporting roles, she played the lead in 1923's Souls for Sale. Her growing popular…

Vilma Bánky (January 9, 1901 – March 18, 1991) was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany. Early life She was born Vilma Koncsics on January 9, 1901 to János Koncsics and Katalin Ulbert in Nagydorog, Austria-Hungary. Her father was a bureau chief under Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian Empire. Shortly after her birth, her father was transferred to Budapest, and the family relocated. She had two siblings - an older brother, Gyula (who would later go on to work in Berlin as a writer and cinematographer), and a younger sister, Gisella. After graduation from seco…

Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova, or Baklanova, (19 August 1896 or 1900 – 6 September 1974) was a Russian-born actress, who achieved prominence during the silent film era. She was billed as the Russian Tigeress. Born in Moscow, Russia, Baclanova was the daughter of Vladimir Baklanoff and his wife Alexandra, herself an actress in early Russian films. Baclanova studied drama at the Cherniavsky Institute before being accepted into the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre in 1912. Over the next decade she appeared in Russian films, and also performed extensively on stage, touring and performing in many countries of the world. After a 1925 performance in New York she decided to follow …

Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive filmography. As a youth her father died and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother. She obtained employment as a violinist in a Salt Lake City, Utah, theater. Silent films Compson made 25 films in 1916 alone, although most of them are shorts. She completed The Miracle Man (1919) for George Loane Tucker. Compson's rise as a star in motion pictures began with her portrayal of Rose in this production. In 1920, she began to head her own company. She worked at the Hollywood Brunton studio and a…

Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkie eras. Petite and very pretty, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. Besides being an actress, she wrote the 1919 movie A Yankee Princess. Early life Love was born Juanita Horton in Midland, Texas. She attended school in Midland until she was in the eighth grade, when her chiropractor father moved his family to Hollywood. Bessie graduated from Los Angeles High School and then received from her parents (as a graduation present) of a trip around the United States. After six months of…

Lyda Borelli (22 March 1884 – 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. She was born in Genoa, and died in Rome. Filmography Ma l'amor mio non muore (1913) La memoria dell'altro (1913) La donna nuda (1914) Fior di male (1915) Rapsodia satanica (1915) La marcia nuziale (1915) La falena (1916) Madame Tallien (1916) Malombra (1917) Carnevalesca (1917) Il dramma di una notte, intitolato anche Una notte a Calcutta, (1917) La storia dei tredici (1917) La leggenda di Santa Barbara (1918)

Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 11 April 1892 - 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century. Biography Born in Florence, she was daughter of a comic theatre actress. Bertini began performing on stages as a child, particularly in Naples, where her family was settled. In 1904, at the age of 16, she moved to Rome, where she improved her acting skills, especially on theatre stages, and attempted to perform in the just-born Italian movie production. Her first important movie, Histoire d'un pierrot, was under the direction of Baldassarre Negroni in 191…

Ashley Newbrough (born October 13, 1987) in Newport Rhode Island, is an American film and television actress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Newbrough Early life and background Ashley Newbrough began her career at the age of ten, appearing in a number of commercials worldwide. She landed her first starring role on the Fox Family Channel’s series The Zack Files, playing Alice alongside Robert Clark, Jeff Clarke, Michael Seater and Jake Epstein. She then landed roles in television movies, including a minor one in family film Get a Clue starring Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song. Newbrough was then given her first lead role in the 2004 drama The Coven. Her next role was …

Source: IMDb Tamara Syomina Date of birth: 25 October 1938, Kaluga, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia] Filmography Kto prikhodit v zimniy vecher... (2007) .... Maid Maestro vor (1994) The Executor (1992) ... aka "Ispolnitel prigovora" - Russia (original title) Vverkh tormashkami (1992) Kazyonnyy dom (1989) Bomzh (Bez opredelyonnogo mesta zhitelstva) (1988) Seraya mysh (1988) Proshchay, shpana zamoskvoretskaya (1987) Vera (1986) Yeshchyo lyublyu, yeshchyo nadeyus (1985) Osoboye podrazdeleniye (1984) Naydi na schastye podkovu (1983) Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitiye (1983) Formula sveta (1982) Tayna zapisnoy knizhki (1981) Dym otechestva (1980) ... ak…

Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Early life Born in Chicago, Illinois into a family of stock theater and vaudeville performers, Blanche Sweet entered the entertainment industry at an early age. At age 4 she toured in a play called The Battle of the Strong whose star was stage luminary Maurice Barrymore. A decade later Sweet would act with Barrymore's son Lionel in a Griffith directed film. In 1909, she started work at Biograph Studios under contract to director D. W. Griffith. By 1910 she had become a rival to Mary Pickford,…

Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945). Bennett had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ingenue, then as a sensuous brunette femme fatale (with looks that movie magazines often compared to those of Hedy Lamarr), and finally as a warmhearted wife/mother figur…

Mary Boland (January 28, 1882 – June 23, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. Career Born Marie Anne Boland in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of William Boland, an actor, and his wife Mary Cecilia Hatton. She had an older sister named Sara. Boland originally was in a convent but left and was performing on stage by the age of fifteen. She debuted on Broadway in 1907 in the play The Ranger with Dustin Farnum and had appeared in eleven Broadway productions, notably with John Drew, before making her silent film debut for Triangle Studios in 1915. She entertained soldiers in France during World War One then returned to America. After appearing in…

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress. Early life She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison. Her younger sisters were actress/dancer Barbara Bennett and actress Joan Bennett. Career She started off with a spell in a convent but decided to go into the family business. Independent, cultured, ironic and outspoken, Constance, the first Bennett sister to enter motion pictures, appeared in New York-produced silent movies before a meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in Cytherea (1924). She abandoned a b…

Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American Academy Award-nominated actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. Early life Black was born as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, the daughter of Elsie, a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman A. Ziegler. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur Ziegler, a classical musician and the first violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her sister is actress Gail Brown. She attended Northwestern University i…

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Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was best known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, and as a voice actor in three Walt Disney Pictures animated feature films. Gabor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Magda Gabor, were also actresses and socialites. Marriages Like her sisters, Eva Gabor was known for her string of marriages; she had five: 1.1939–1942: Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician 2.27 September 1943–1950: Charles Isaacs 3.8 April 1956–1957: John Williams, an Ameri…

Agnes Esterhazy (21 January 1898 – 4 November 1956) was an Ethnic Hungarian film actress, who worked mainly in Austria. She appeared in 30 films between 1923 and 1943. She was born in Klausenburg, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and died in Budapest, Hungary.

Fern Andra (November 24, ca. 1894– February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent films of the 1910s. Biography Born as Vernal Edna Andrews in Watseka, Illinois, the daughter of a circus performer and an opera singer, Andra was already appearing in public in a tightrope act by the age of four. She was later trained in song and dance. As early as 1899, in New York, she made her first film, a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. She remained however with the circus, with which she embarked on an extensive tour across the United S…

Alice Terry (July 29, 1899 – December 22, 1987) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. Career Born Alice Frances Taaffe in Vincennes, Indiana, she made her film debut in 1916 in Not My Sister, opposite Bessie Barriscale and William Desmond Taylor. That same year, she played several different characters in the 1916 anti-war film Civilization, co-directed by Thomas H. Ince and Reginald Barker. One of her most acclaimed performances came as "Marguerite" in 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino. In 1925 her husband co-directed Ben-Hur, filming par…

Anna Quirentia Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974) was a Swedish born American actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Early life Anna Q. Nilsson was born in Ystad, southern Sweden in 1888. Her middle name, "Quirentia," is derived from Saint Quirinius' Day, March 30, her date of birth. At the age of 8 her father got a job at the local sugar factory in Hasslarp, a small community outside Helsingborg in Sweden where she spent most of her school years. She did very well in school, graduating with highest marks. Due to her good grades she was hired as sales clerk in Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, unusual for a young woman from a worker's famil…

Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she played the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Career Brady was born in New York City as Mary Rose Brady, and was interested at an early age in becoming an actress. Her father, William A. Brady, was an important theatrical producer, and her mother was Rose Marie Rene who died in 1896 when litt…

May Allison (June 14, 1890 – March 27, 1989) was an American stage and film actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in the medium of silent film. Life and career Allison was born in Rising Fawn, Georgia, the youngest of five children born to Dr. John Simon (Sam) Allison and Nannie Virginia (Wise) Allison. Violet eyed, Allison made her Broadway stage debut in the 1914 production of Apartment 12-K before settling in Hollywood, California in the early days of motion pictures. Allison's screen debut was as an ingenue in the 1915 star-making Theda Bara vehicle A Fool There Was. When Allison was cast that same year opposite actor Har…

Renée Adorée (September 30, 1898 – October 5, 1933) was a French actress who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. Early life Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Lille, Nord, France, she was the daughter of circus artists and who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents. In her teen years she began acting in minor stage productions and toured Europe with her troupe. She was performing in Russia when World War I broke out and fled to London. Career rise From London she went on to New York City where she continued to work in the theatre until the opportunity came to work in the motion picture business. In 1920, given the exotic name Renée …

Helene Anna Held (March 8, 1873 – August 12, 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. Early life Born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire she was the daughter of a Jewish glove maker, Shimmle (aka Maurice) Held, and his French-Jewish wife, Yvonne Pierre. Sources of her year of birth range from 1865 to 1873. In 1881, anti-semitic pogroms forced the family to flee to Paris, France. When her father's glovemaking business failed, he found work as a janitor, while her mother operated a kosher restaurant. Held began working in the garment industry, then found work as a singer in Jewish the…

Elizabeth McLaughlin began her acting career with community theatre groups in Tampa, Florida. At eight years old, she joined the apprentice cast of Entertainment Revue, a professional show choir in Tampa, and was promoted to the professional cast two year later. Performances have included singing for Gov. Bush and Schwarzenegger. Elizabeth is an honor student, has won several speech and storytelling competitions, and was a cheerleader at her former high school. She has been seen in Ugly Betty and is most known for her role as Massie Block in The Clique movie based off of the Clique books. Elizabeth has stopped acting and plans to go to College to get a degree in filmograp…