Edwin Forrest
American actor (1806ā1872) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the pilot boat, see Edwin Forrest (pilot boat).
Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806 ā December 12, 1872) was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.