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Marie Tempest
Singer, Film actor
1864 – 1942
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Who was Marie Tempest?
Dame Marie Tempest DBE was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession".
Tempest became the most famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere. She was, at times, her own theatre manager during a career spanning 55 years. Tempest was also instrumental in the founding of the actors' union Equity in Britain.
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1864
London - Also known as
- queen of her profession
- Dame Marie Tempest
- Marie Susan Etherington
- reina de su profesión
- Parents
- Spouses
- Alfred Izard
(1885 - 1889) - Cosmo Lennox
(1899 - 1921) - W. Graham Brown
(1922 - 1937/03/11)
- Alfred Izard
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Oct 15, 1942
London
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on July 23, 2013
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