Gladys Cooper
Birthday: 1888-12-18 | Place of Birth: Chiswick, England, UKDame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gladys Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Aunt Mary Drexel
as Mrs. Higgins
as Mrs. Karoudjian
as Mrs. Railton-Bell
as Lady Binfield
as Queen Anne
as Madame Dupuis
as Mrs. Medlock
as Aunt Inez
as Mrs. Kirby
as Mrs. Hamilton
as Sophie Patourel
as Beatrice Remington
as Clarissa Scott
as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
as Jean Ashwood
as Captain Veronica Steadman
as Miss Haskell
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
as Iris Cathaway
as Mrs. Henry Vale
as Lady Francis Nelson
as Maxine Wood
as Myrna Hartley
as Beatrice Lacy