Yang Naimei
Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor
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Pearl Ing
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.
Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Mary Manning
Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.
Cleo Madison
Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.
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.
Kathlyn Williams
Silent film actress, director and writer
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