Selene Johnson

Selene Johnson
Selene Johnson in The Squaw Man with William Faversham
Born	Selene Knapp Johnson (1876-02-20)February 20, 1876 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	December 11, 1960(1960-12-11) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	Lumsden Hare

Selene Knapp Johnson (February 20, 1876 – December 11, 1960) was an American stage and silent film

Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, later. In the mid-1890s she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[1]

While Johnson was a student in the academy, she obtained the leading female role in The Girl I Left Behind Me.^[2] Another of her early performances was in The Great Diamond Robbery.^[1] Stock theater companies with which she worked included Acazar in San Francisco, Columbia Theatre in Washington, D. C., and Salisbury in Milwaukee.^[1]

Johnson performed in silent cinema, includingThe Divine Sacrifice (1918).^[3][4]

Johnson was married to Lumsden Hare,^[5] and she died in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Plays

• The Golden Age as Margaret Barnes (1928)
• The Title as Mrs. Culver (1921)
• Peter's Mother (1918)
• Ourselves (1913)
• The Return from Jerusalem (1912)
• The Dollar Mark (1909)
• Disengaged (1909)
• Irene Wycherley (1908)
• The Squaw Man (1905-1906)
• Abigail (1905)
• The Man of Destiny / How He Lied to Her Husband as herself (1904)
• Audrey (1902-1903)
• Frou-Frou (1902)
• Monte Cristo as Mercedes (1900-1901)
• A Rich Man's Son (1899)
• Peter Stuyvesant (1899)

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