Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
Polish opera singer
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.
English actress and theatre manager
English actress, producer and memoirist
Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Irish actress