Marie Wainwright

Wainwright, Marie (1853–1923), actress and singer. The Paris‐trained performer from an old Philadelphia family made her debut in New York as Juliet in 1877, then spent several years with the Boston Museum, where she was the first American Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore and the first American Countess Zicka in Diplomacy. Thereafter, Wainwright served as leading lady to Lawrence Barrett, then headed her own company. She continued to act until her death, in later years assuming important secondary roles in such plays as Marie‐Odile (1915) and Dear Brutus (1918).