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Early Chinese film producer, editor and director

China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband

Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.

Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry

Early film critic

Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.

Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.

Silent film actor, director and writer