Minnie Maddern Fiske
American actress
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Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris
French actress commonly know as “La Clairon”
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
George Anne Bellamy
Irish actress
Maria Dronke
Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.
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.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the most well-known Black female writers and playwrights of her time. Known for writing most about love and womanhood, Douglas Johnson’s published works touched many and were featured in the most widely-read Black publications of the twentieth century.