Elizabeth Baur (1947 - 2017)

Elizabeth Baur (December 1, 1947 – September 30, 2017) was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Teresa O’Brien on the CBS western series, Lancer, with Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, Wayne Maunder, and Paul Brinegar, and as Officer Fran Belding on NBC’s crime drama series Ironside. Elizabeth Baur was born in […]

Elizabeth Bergner (1897 - 1986)

Actress. Starred in “As You Like It”(1936) and “Catherine the Great”(1934). (bio by: Kieran Smith)  Family links:  Spouse:  Paul Czinner (1890 – 1972)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979)

Poet; “North and South: A Cold Spring”, won Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1955; elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1976.  Family links:  Parents:  William Thomas Bishop (1872 – 1911)  Gertrude May Bulmer Bishop (1879 – 1934)  Spouses:  Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares (1910 – 1967)*  Louise Crane (1913 – 1997)* […]

Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)

Writer. She was born in Dublin (Ireland) and died in London (England). She is best remembered fos her books The Death of the Heart, Eva Trout, A World of Love, Seven Winters, The Last September, The House in Paris and Pictures and Conversations, that was published posthumously. (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Elizabeth Bradley (1922 - 2000)

Actress. The youngest of two daughters born to senior civil servant Sir John Abraham and his wife, She attended Wentworth School, which she left at the age of 17 , and after studying nursing,  joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment with the British Red Cross where she worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. […]

Elizabeth Bradley (1922 - 2000)

Actress. The youngest of two daughters born to senior civil servant Sir John Abraham and his wife, She attended Wentworth School, which she left at the age of 17 , and after studying nursing,  joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment with the British Red Cross where she worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. […]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the eighth of 11 children, was born in Johnstown, New York, to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Five of her siblings died in early childhood or infancy. A sixth sibling, her elder brother Eleazar, died at age 20 just prior to his graduation from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Only […]

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822 - 1907)

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Elizabeth Cary was born in 1822 into a Boston Brahmin family of New England Ancestry. She was born on December 5, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts at the house of her grandfather, Colonel Perkins, on Pearl Street. She was born to Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Graves Cary (who was a […]

Elizabeth Catlett (1915 - 2012)

Catlett was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of three children.  She attended the Lucretia Mott Elementary School, Dunbar High School, and then Howard University where she studied design, printmaking and drawing. In an interview in December 1981 in Artist and Influence magazine, she stated that she changed her major to painting because of the […]

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919 - 1989)

Educator. She was a teacher for 30 years, before becoming the first African American woman to head the Bureau of North Carolina Teachers Association. During the presidential Administration of Richard M. Nixon, she was the highest ranking black woman, heading the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor and served as a delegate to the […]

Elizabeth Edwards (1949 - 2010)

Mary Elizabeth Anania, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Thweatt Anania (March 11, 1923 – January 25, 2012) and Vincent Anania (April 22, 1920 – March 1, 2008), grew up in a military family, moving many times and never having a hometown. Her father, a United States Navy pilot, was transferred from military base to military […]

Elizabeth Flournoy (1886 - 1977)

Actress, “Adams Rib” 1949, “Annie Get your Gun”, “Titanic” and “Cash McCall”. (bio by: Graving Queen of the OC)

Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau (1837 - 1922)

Artist. She was the first woman to exhibit a painting at the world-famous Paris Salon, and the first American woman to be awarded a gold medal by the French Academy. Her forte was domestic scenes featuring women and children, lovingly detailed in the Academic manner. Elizabeth Jane Gardner was born in Exeter,  New Hampshire,  and […]

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917)

Elizabeth Garrett was born on 9 June 1836 in Whitechapel, London, the second of eleven children of Newson Garrett (1812–1893), from Leiston, Suffolk, and his wife, Louisa née Dunnell (1813–1903), from London.  The Garrett ancestors had been ironworkers in East Suffolk since the early seventeenth century. Newson was the youngest of three sons and not […]

Elizabeth Harrower (1918 - 2003)

Actress. She is best known for her role as ‘Charlotte Ramsey’ on the soap opera television series “Young And the Restless,” which she also wrote for from 1973 to 2003. She also appeared in the films, “I Love You Goodbye” (1974), “A Brand New Life” (1973), “Adventures Of Nick Carter” (1972), “Shoot Out” (1971), “True […]

Elizabeth Hartman (1943 - 1987)

Actress. Elizabeth Hartman made her film debut in “A Patch of Blue” opposite Sidney Poitier.  Her efforts earned her a nomination for an Academy Award as best Actress.  She did not win, but later received a Golden Globe award .  Her career quickly took hold and other movies followed…”The Group” “Your’re a Big Boy Now” […]

Elizabeth I of England (1533 - 1603)

Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace and was named after both her grandmothers, Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard. She was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy. Her mother was Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. At birth, Elizabeth was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England. […]

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1893 - 1986)

Prolific poet and author of fiction and non-fiction. She is best remembered as an author of children’s books, most notably “The Cat That Went To Heaven,” which won the prestigious Newbery Medal for Children’s literature and has been in continuous print for the past 75 years. Over 80 of her children’s books have been published, […]

Elizabeth Kemp (1951 - 2017)

Elizabeth Kemp was in the original cast of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which began at The Actors Studio off-Broadway before it transferred to Broadway and became a long-running smash hit. Her mentor, Elia Kazan, took Tennessee Williams to see Kemp in this production and when Williams was looking for the actress to play […]

Elizabeth Monroe (1768 - 1830)

Elizabeth Monroe Born in New York in 1768, Elizabeth was the daughter of Lawrence Kortright and Hannah Aspinwall, 6th generation of Dutch Flanders origins. Lawrence Kortright the eldest son of Cornelius Kortright, also a merchant. During the French Indian wars, he became wealthy and prominent. He was part owner of several privateers fitted out at […]

Elizabeth Montgomery (1933 - 1995)

Elizabeth Montgomery Montgomery played the central role of lovable witch Samantha Stephens with Dick York (and later with Dick Sargent) as her husband in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched. Starting in the second season of the series, she also played the role of Samantha’s mischievous cousin, Serena, under the pseudonym Pandora Spocks. Bewitched became a […]

Elizabeth Murphy (1894 - 1964)

By the age of 17, Elizabeth Murphy was playing professionally and demanding to be paid when she played. She first signed with the Providence Independents and then  in 1918 she signed with Ed Carr’s Traveling All-Stars, a semi-professional team out of Boston. Carr’s was a barnstorming team which traveled throughout Canada and New England playing […]

Elizabeth Norment (1952 - 2014)

Actress. A versatile performer over her 30 year career, she shall probably be remembered as Nancy, Kevin Spacey’s faithful secretary in the online drama “House of Cards”. Raised in suburban Washington, she attended the elite Sidwell Friends School and the University of Chicago prior to earning an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a master’s […]

Elizabeth of York (1466 - 1503)

Elizabeth of York was born at the Palace of Westminster as the eldest child of King Edward IV and his wife, Elizabeth Woodville. Her christening was celebrated at Westminster Abbey, sponsored by her grandmothers Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford, and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. Her third sponsor was her cousin, Richard Neville, 16th […]

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 - 1894)

Transcendentalist, philosopher, educator. Founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States.  Family links:  Parents:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1778 – 1853)  Siblings:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 – 1894)  Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1807 – 1887)*  Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne (1809 – 1871)*  Nathaniel Cranch Peabody (1811 – 1881)*  George Francis Peabody (1813 – 1839)*  Wellington […]

Elizabeth Patterson (1874 - 1966)

Actress.  Best known for her recurring role as ‘Little Ricky’s’ babysitter ‘Mrs. Matilda Trumball’ in the television series “I Love Lucy.”  She was born Mary Elizabeth Patterson in Tennessee in 1874.  She was the daughter of a confederate solider turned judge.  Her family was very strict and it was unheard of to become an actress. […]

Elizabeth Peña (1953 - 2014)

Elizabeth Peña Elizabeth Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an American actress and director. Early life Born in 1959 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Peña was of Cuban descent and spent her early years in Cuba. Her father, Mario Peña, was an actor, writer, and director who co-founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble; her […]

Elizabeth Pena (1959 - 2014)

Elizabeth Peña Peña was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey on September 23, 1959 to Mario Peña, an actor, director, and writer who co-founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble, and Estella Margarita (Toirac) Peña, an arts administrator and producer.  She was of Cuban descent and spent her early years in Cuba. At age 8, […]

Elizabeth Risdon (1887 - 1958)

Actress.  Born in London,  she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her silent screen debut in 1913.  Small,  curvy and versatile,  Risdon was very popular with British audiences and in 1915 was voted England’s Favorite Movie Star.  In 1916 she married  George Loane Tucker,  the director of some of her best […]

Elizabeth Rogers (1934 - 2004)

Actress. Rogers films include, “Dragnet 1966” (1969), “Something Evil” (1972), “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), “The Towering Inferno” (1974), “Adventures Of The Queen” (1975), “Flood!” (1976), “The Van” (1977), “A Sensitive, Passionate Man” (1977), “Grand Theft Auto” (1977), “Lacy And The Mississippi Queen” (1978), “The Swarm” (1978), “Hanging By A Thread” (1979), “An Officer And A […]