Kathlyn Williams
Silent film actress, director and writer
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Lillian Gish
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer
Lois Weber
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.
Maria Dronke
Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Ninette de Valois
Irish ballerina, choreographer, and founder of the Royal Ballet
Margaret Anglin
American actress, director and producer