Cleo Madison
Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.
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Elsie Wilson
Silent film actor, director and writer
Ida May Park
The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario 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.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Ninette de Valois
Irish ballerina, choreographer, and founder of the Royal Ballet
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.
Margaret Anglin
American actress, director and producer