Valentine Grant

Who was Valentine Grant?

Valentine Grant was an American silent film actress.

Grant became the companion of film director Sidney Olcott who cast her in his 1915 production of Nan o' the Backwoods. She had been part of the Kalem Company crew that went to film for the second time in Ireland and in 1915 she starred in All for Old Ireland.

Grant also appeared in several films for other companies such as Lubin Studios in Philadelphia and for Famous Players-Lasky. She married Olcott, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life, and after he left Kalem she performed in a few films for his production company before retiring in 1918.

In 1918 she sailed on the SS Tuscania from New York to U.K. It was being used as a U.S. Army troopship and was torpedoed by German U boat UB77 near Ireland. Most on board were saved and were taken to Ireland or the Isle of Mull in Scotland.

Grant died in 1949 a few months before her husband.