Actresses

Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress and television interviewer, known as "The First Lady of Television". She acted in in many Warner Brothers films beginning in 1941. In 1944, she played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's ex in The Mask of Dimitrios. She was born to Lawrence and Emma (Smythe) in the tiny community of Elizabeth, Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana. In 1948, she made a move to television and began acting in various anthology series including The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse and Goodyear Television Playhouse. She served as host for several short-lived talk shows and …

Lina Basquette (April 19, 1907 – September 30, 1994) was an American actress noted as much for her more than 75 years in entertainment beginning in the silent film era, as her tumultuous personal life and nine marriages. Early years She was born Lena Copeland Baskette to shop owner Frank Baskette and Gladys Rosenberg in San Mateo, California. After the death of her father and subsequent marriage of her mother to dance director Ernest Belcher, she and half-sister Marge Champion got an early start in dance and entertaining. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, and secured her first film contract at the age of nine in 1916 with Universal Studios for the si…

Beverly Bayne (born Pearl Beverly Bain) (November 11, 1894 – August 18, 1982) was an American actress who appeared in silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for Essanay Studios. Early life Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she moved to Chicago when she was six. She stayed there for a time, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before she settled in Chicago. She was sixteen when by curiosity she happened by the Essanay Studios. She was told she had a camera face. She began working there at a salary of $35/week. It was soon increased to $75 a week. In a few years the actress was earning $350 weekly. Film career Her first films were The Rivals …

Barbara Kent (born December 16, 1906) is a Canadian actress who was popular in silent movies. She is one of the very few surviving adult-aged players from Hollywood's silent film period after the death of Gloria Stuart aged 100. Born as Barbara Cloutman in Gadsby, Alberta, she won the Miss Hollywood Pageant in 1925. She began her Hollywood career in 1925 in a small role for Universal Studios. A brunette who stood less than five feet tall, Kent became popular as a comedienne opposite such stars as Reginald Denny, and also made a strong impression as the heroine, pitted against Greta Garbo's femme fatale in Flesh and the Devil (1926). She attracted attention in the 1927 f…

Enid Bennett (15 July 1893 - 14 May 1969) was an Australian silent film actress. Career Born in York, Western Australia, Bennett started her film acting career in 1916, first starring in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with two other films that same year. She married American director Sidney Franklin early in her career, but they were divorced shortly thereafter. In 1917 she starred in five films, the most important of which was The Little Brother opposite William Garwood. That film brought her to the attention of studios and led to an increasing number of acting roles. From 1918 to 1921 she starred in twenty-three films, becoming well known and recognizable as an actress.…

Name: Georgia Laura Henley Birth Date: July 9th, 1995 Nationality: English Location: Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England Georgia (Georgie) Henley, born on July 9th, 1995 is a young British actress best known for her portrayal of Lucy Pevensie in the Disney big-budget movies The Chronicles of Narnia – for which she has won several awards. Since the release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Henley has appeared in the stage play Babes in the Wood at her local theatre group, which ran from 27th January to 4th February 2006. She also appeared as the young Jane Eyre in the 2006 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre. Georgie was born to Helen Henley Wone and Mike Henley, and has t…

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Esther Schweins (born 18 April 1970 in Oberhausen) is a German actress and comedienne who became famous through her appearances on the RTL Samstag Nacht show for which she won the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis in 1994.

Nadja Tiller (born March 16, 1929, Vienna) is an Austrian actress. She won the Miss Austria election in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. In 1955, she acted opposite O.W. Fischer in the film, Ich suche Dich, which is based on a play by A.J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was that of Rosemarie Nitribitt in the 1958 German movie, Das Mädchen Rosemarie. Tiller has been married since 1956 to actor Walter Giller. They have a son and a daughter.

Rosemarie Bowe (born September 17, 1932) is an American film and television actress. Her father was a building contractor and her mother was a dress designer. The family moved to Tacoma, Washington when Bowe was a child. She graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma just before moving to Los Angeles, California. Beauty contestant She was crowned Miss Tomica and Miss Montana in 1950. In May 1951 Bowe competed in a contest to choose the queen of the sixth annual Home Show and Building Exposition. Along with Mary Ellen Nichols, she was a runner-up to the contest winner, Linda Peterson. Model When she arrived in California, Bowe secured work as a model. Her measureme…

Gladys Brockwell (September 26, 1893 – July 2, 1929) was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era. Early life Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age. By the time she reached her middle teens, she was already a veteran and taking on dramatic leading roles. She made her East Coast film debut in 1913 as Gladys Brockwell for Lubin Studios and within a short time was starring in a number of films. Developing her craft, Brockwell moved to Hollywood where she earned herself an important role in the acclaimed 1922 version of Oliver Twist and in The Hunchback of Notre Dam…

Sally Blane (July 11, 1910 – August 27, 1997) was an American actress. Blane was the sister of actresses Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young, and half-sister to actress Georgiana Young, the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban. She appeared in over 70 movies. Born Elizabeth Jane Young in Salida, Colorado, she had her film debut at the age of seven when she appeared in Sirens of the Sea in 1917. She returned to the film business as an adult in the 1920s where she played small parts in a number of silent films. Her career continued into the 1930s when Blane appeared in a number of low-budget films, among them Once a Sinner (1930), A Dangerous Affair (1930), Arabian Knights (1931…

Bessie Barriscale (September 30, 1884 – June 30, 1965) was an American silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s. Early life and career Barriscale was born Elizabeth Barry Scale, in Hoboken, New Jersey to Irish immigrants from County Cork. Her cousins were actresses Edith and Mabel Taliaferro. Barriscale began her film career in 1913, and worked intensively for New York Motion Picture Company and Triangle Film Corporation (among other studios) until she announced her retirement in the early 1930s. In 1918, Barriscale was contracted by J.L. Frothingham of B.B. Features and the Roberson Cole Company to make sixteen films. B…

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Barbara Bedford (19 July 1900—25 October 1981) was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and was educated in Chicago, where she graduated from Lake View High School. She felt the urge to appear on the silver screen at that time and immediately set out for Hollywood, where she impressed Lambert Hillyer, William S. Hart's director, by her unusual beauty and charm. Despite the fact that she had no stage or screen experience, he cast her for a role in Hart's The Cradle of Courage (1920). She starred in the 1927 silent film "Mockery" with Lon Chaney. Her career declining after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appe…

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Marion "Peanuts" Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin in Dayton, Ohio, March 16, 1911 – died in Santa Monica, California, July 5, 1985) was a petite (5 feet), plucky American movie comedienne. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film Steamboat Bill, Jnr. in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (5') Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief (3 film) series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929. She left Roach before they …

Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 – February 21, 1996) was an American silent film actress. Career Born in Washington, D.C., Bonner made her film debut opposite Charles Ray in the 1920 film Homer Comes Home, after being signed to MGM that same year. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney, Sr. in Shadows (1922), and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man. In 1925 she successfully sued Warner Brothers and won a substantial cash settlement when she was originally chosen and then dropped as leading lady from John Barrymore's The Sea Beast in favor of Barrymore's new real life love interest Dolores Costello.In 1927, Bon…

Sylvia Breamer (9 June 1897 - 7 June 1943) was an Australian actress who performed in American silent motion pictures beginning in 1917. Her father was Sir James De Courcey Breamer, a commander in the Royal Navy. After his death her mother married Judge A.G. Plunkett, formerly of Sydney, Australia. Silent Screen Actress Sylvia's initial film efforts were with Colonel J. Stuart Blackton films. She also performed in releases produced by Mayflower Pictures. Breamer came to Hollywood with her sister, Doris, in 1920. Her mother relocated also, rssiding at 837 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, California. Her first Hollywood movie was Athalie, a story of spiritualism, dire…

Belle Bennett (April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her professional career in vaudeville. She was born in Milaca, Minnesota. Stage actress Bennett appeared in circus performances during her childhood. Her father was Billie Bennett, owner of a circus. He trained her to be a trapeze performer after she spent some years in the Sacred Heart Convent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By age thirteen she was appearing in public. Performances with stock companies led Bennett to Broadway. There she appeared in theatrical productions staged by David Belasco. Motion pictures Bennett was cast in numerous minor Hollywood motion pictures like the …

Beverly D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress and singer. Early life D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Priscilla, a violinist, and Gene D'Angelo, a bass player and television station manager. She is of part Italian ancestry. Her maternal grandfather, Howard Dwight Smith, was the architect who designed Ohio Stadium, also known as "the Horseshoe" at The Ohio State University. She has three brothers, Jeff, Tim and Tony. Career D'Angelo began work in the theatre, appearing on Broadway in 1976 in Rockabye Hamlet (also known as Kronborg: 1582) a musical based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Although the production was a failure, running less …

Mae Busch (18 June 1891 – 20 April 1946) was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife. Early life and career Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was a member of a musical family. Her father was a conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and her mother was a singer. In 1900 her family moved to America, where she was placed in a convent. Upon her graduation Busch decided to pursue a career in theatre, and appeared on stage and then in vaudeville. She first appeared in films in The Agitator …

Lubov Tolkalina is Russian actress. Date of Birth: February 16, 1978. Master of Sports in synchronized swimming. Roles in the theater 1999 - "Ivan's" Anton Chekhov - Sarah 1999 - "Khanum" Giya Kancheli - Kabato 2000 - "Othello" by William Shakespeare - Desdemona Filmography 1999 Recluse 2000 Parting with Moscow 2000 Trajectory Butterflies 2001 Line of defense 2002 Antikiller 2002 Society Columns 2003 Antikiller 2: Antiterror 2004 I love you 2004 Sins of the Fathers 2004 Listener Marina 2004 Twins 2004 Games Adult Girls 2004 Traders 2005 Matryoshka 2005 Escape 2005 Talisman love 2006 Return of the Prodigal Dad 2006 My General 2007 Kissing Fallen Angel 2007 Open,…

Anastasia Makeeva Date of Birth: December 23, 1981 Place of birth: Krasnodar, RSFSR, USSR Musicals 2008 - Monte Cristo Series 2003 - The Advocate 2008 - And yet I love 2008 - One Night of Love - Olga Orlova 2010 - Cherkizon. Disposable people - Lilka 2010 - Whirlpool - Nica Films 2004 - The Rider Named Death 2005 - Persona Non Grata 2006 - Countdown 2007 - Georg 2008 - Home, sweet home! - Lina

Svetlana Ivanova (born September 26, 1985 in Moscow) - Russian actress. Roles in the theater "Vermouth" (K. Schlender) (diploma) "Christmas in the house of Signor Kupello" (E. De Filippo) (diploma) "When the war is over" (by military prose) (diploma) The Power of Darkness »(A. Tolstoy) (diploma) Filmography Feature 2004 - God Son - Deena 2004 - Farewell echo - Natasha 2005 - Company 9 - Olya 2005 - Private Detective - Masha 2006 - Franz Polina - Polina 2006 - present Santa Claus - Katya Nikitina 2006 - From love to kohannja - Nastya 2006 - The Last Confession - Nadia Tyulenina 2006 - Formula Zero - Marina 2006 - Four taxi drivers and dog 2 - Katja 2007 - Temptation - Anya…