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Irish-born American actress (died 1935) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eileen Huban (1896 or 1897 – October 22, 1935) was an American actress, active in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s.
Eileen Huban | |
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Born | 1896 or 1897 |
Died | October 22, 1935 (aged 38) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Huban was born in Gort, Loughrea, Ireland.[1] She was the youngest of nine children of Michael Huban and Winifred Mullins Huban. She attended a convent school,[2] and moved to the United States to be with her widowed mother and sisters by 1913.[3]
Huban's first public performance was as a singer in the 1913 Irish Historic Pageant at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.[4] Her New York stage credits included roles in the shows Lonesome-like (1915),[5] The Grasshopper (1917),[6] Old Friends (1917),[7] On With the Dance (1917),[8] Cheating Cheaters (1918), Crops and Croppers (1918),[9] Dark Rosaleen (1919),[10] Paddy the Next Best Thing (1920),[11] Hindle Wakes (1922), King Henry IV, Part I (1926), Window Panes (1927),[12] Mixed Marriage (1930),[13] and Troilus and Cressida (1932).[3][14] She was also seen in the silent film Find the Woman (1922).
"She is lovely to behold, a person naturally eloquent and dramatic," wrote a New York Times reviewer in 1917. "She plays with a grateful simplicity and directness, and she has a certain eeriness that is fascinating."[14] "Her voice is a fine mezzo-soprano with unusual range and power," noted the Baltimore Sun in 1919, while also remarking on her "large dark-blue eyes" and "dark brown curls".[1]
Huban served several three-year terms on the board of directors of the Actors' Fidelity League.[15]
Huban died in 1935, after six months of illness, at the age of 38, in New York City.[14]
Her grand-niece is the actress Susan Sullivan. [16]
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