Eslanda Robeson
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
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Lois Weber
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.
Mary Anne Keeley
English actress and theatre manager
Lillie Langtry
English actress, producer and memoirist
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.
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
George Anne Bellamy
Irish actress
Pat Lovell
Having produced the films Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) and Gallipoli (Weir, 1981) Patricia Lovell is regarded as one of Australia’s most successful film producers.
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.