Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris
French actress commonly know as “La Clairon”
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Maggie Mitchell
American actress
Mary Shaw
American actress, lecturer and woman suffrage leader.
Mary Anne Keeley
English actress and theatre manager
Elisabeth Marbury
American author’s representative and theatrical manager.
Lillie Langtry
English actress, producer and memoirist
Davina Whitehouse
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.
George Anne Bellamy
Irish actress
Maria Dronke
Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.
Ethel Lang
In 1924, she began working as a radio actress at 2FC, one of Australia’s first radio stations. In the 1930s she played a number of leading roles for ABC radio, including Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Jane Marryot in Noël Coward’s Cavalcade. During this time, she also worked extensively with 2SM and 2GB.