Marija Pēkšēna
The first Latvian woman playwright.
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Corona Schröter
German singer and composer
Mary Pearse
Co-founded the Leinster Stage Society, for which she wrote some original pieces and adapted some Dickens for the stage. They had moderate success until a calamitous run at the Cork opera house in 1912.
Biruta Skujeniece
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Mary Cowden Clarke
English writer
Matilda Heron
Irish-American theatre actress
Maude Adams
American early film actress
Minnie Maddern Fiske
American actress
Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris
French actress commonly know as “La Clairon”
Maggie Mitchell
American actress