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Ivy Millais
British actress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivy Millais (25 December 1883 – 29 July 1969) was a British film and stage actress of the early 20th-century. She had a notable career in silent film.
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She was born in Mile End in London in 1883 as Isabel Katherine Malenoir, the second of four children of Katharine and Samuel Richard Malenoir, a fish salesman.[1] Her stage roles included: Stephanus in The Sign of the Cross (1903-04), and The Prince and the Beggar Maid (1908-09), both at the Grand Theatre, Southampton.[2]
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Millais appeared in various films in the silent era, including: Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist (1912); Mate in The Cloister and the Hearth (1913); Ethel Loder in The Recalling of John Grey (1915); Mary Ashford in The Bottle (1915) opposite Albert Chevalier as her husband; Sarah in Trelawney of the Wells (1916); Jane Peach in Comin' Thro' the Rye (1916), and Liza, The Grain of Sand in A Grain of Sand (1917) opposite Stewart Rome and Chrissie White.[3] She was married to the surveyor Verney Charles Hannam Warren (1885-1963) from 1914[4] to his death.
Ivy Millais died in 1969 in Thames Ditton in Surrey.