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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1874-10-06 (150 years old)

Place of Birth

Oakland, California, USA

Nance O'Neil

Biography:

Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".

Known For

Acting

1939

A Criminal at Large as Lady Lebanon

1932

False Faces as Mrs. Finn
Westward Passage as Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)

1931

Cimarron as Felice Venable
Secret Service as Mrs. Varney
The Good Bad Girl as Mrs. Henderson
Transgression as Honora 'Nora' Maury
A Woman of Experience as Countess Runyi
Their Mad Moment as Grand Mere
The Royal Bed as Martha, the Queen
Resurrection as Princess Marya

1930

The Eyes of the World as Myra Willard
Ladies of Leisure as Mrs. Strong
The Lady of Scandal as Lady Trench
Call of the Flesh as Mother Superior
The Florodora Girl as Mrs. Vibart
The Rogue Song as Princess Alexandra

1929

1918

The Fall of the Romanoffs as Czarina Alexandra

1917

Mrs. Balfame as Mrs. Balfame

1916

The Iron Woman as Sarah Maitland
The Witch as Zora Fernandez

1915

Kreutzer Sonata as Miriam Friedlander

1913