Actress. Born Myra Cutler in Modale, Iowa, she was part of her father’s traveling act The Cutler Comedy Medicine Show, when she met and married Joseph Keaton in May 1884. She began performing with her husband in various shows and after her son actor Buster Keaton was born they toured and appeared on Vaudeville as “The Three Keatons” in the early 1900s. All members of the Keaton family occasionally appeared in Buster Keaton’s silent and sound film comedies. She died in Los Angeles, California, at age 78.