Laura Addison
Laura Addison | |
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| Born | Laura Wilmshurst November 15, 1822 |
| Died | September 3, 1852 American coastal waters |
| Nationality | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Occupation | actor |
Laura Addison (1822–1852) was an English stage actress.
Biography
Addison was born in Colchester on 15 November 1822. She was daughter of a grocer named Thomas Wilmshurst.[1]
She made her first appearance as "Miss Addison" on the stage in November 1843, at the
Westland Marston.[1] She remained at Sadler's Wells for several seasons where she overshadowed Fanny Cooper so much that she left.[2] Addison played Juliet, Portia, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Imogen, Miranda, and Lady Macbeth; she appeared as Panthea upon the revival of Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy of A King and no King; and she was the first representative of Margaret Randolph and Lilian Saville in the poetic tragedies of Feudal Times and John Saville of Haysted by James White.[1]
In 1849 she was playing at the
Haymarket with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, and in 1850 she accepted an engagement at Drury Lane under Mr. Anderson's management, representing the characters of Mrs. Haller in the Stranger, Mrs. Beverley in the Gamester, Bianca in Fazio, and Leonora in an English version of Schiller's Fiesco. In 1851 she left England for America, and died on 3 September 1852 on the steamer Oregon travelling from Albany to New York City and she was buried there.[1]
References
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- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15862. Retrieved 8 November 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Addison, Laura". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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