Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
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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
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.
Corona Schröter
German singer and composer
Biruta Skujeniece
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Maude Adams
American early film actress
Minnie Maddern Fiske
American actress
Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris
French actress commonly know as “La Clairon”