Born October 22, 1880· Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
† Died February 4, 1959
23Roles★ 6.8Average rating
Born into a Catholic nationalist family in Belfast, she first studied art before turning to the Abbey School of Acting, where she spent over two decades performing for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and later appeared on London stages. After a modest start in British cinema with titles such as Dark Red Roses (1929) and Hitchcock’s Murder! (1930), her breakthrough arrived when Noël Coward cast her in the L…
