Marguerite Leslie (born Marguerite Hedman, April 3, 1884 – 1958) was a Swedish-born English actress.
Early life
Marguerite Hedman was born in
Östersund,
Jämtland County, Sweden, the daughter of Johan Hedman and Ingrid Kempe. Her sister
Martha Hedman also worked as an actress,[1][2] and later as a writer. The sisters were educated in Sweden, Finland, and London.[3]
Career
Marguerite Hedman adopted the name "Marguerite Leslie" as an actress in London,[1] where she appeared in Nero (1906), The Beauty of Bath (1906-1907), My Darling (1907), Concerning a Countess (1907),[4]A Scotch Marriage (1907-1908), Penelope (1909),[5]Preserving Mr. Panmure (1911), The Marionettes (1911-1912), At the Barn (1912), and The Vision of Delight (1912).[6]
Her Broadway credits included The Virginian (1904), Penelope (1909-1910), The Secret (1913-1914), Outcast (1914-1915), and The Basker (1916). In Los Angeles she had roles in The Gamblers (1912)[7] and The Money Moon (1912).[8] She also appeared in four silent films, Jim the Penman (1915, now lost), The Question (1916), The Mite of Love (1919, a short), and The Chosen Path (1919).[9]
She was tall,[10] and considered a beauty as a young actress,[3] a "
Burne-Jones girl in an English garden-party hat... quite the pinkest and whitest, fresh daisiest thing we have had for a long while," mused one Los Angeles writer.[11] During
World War I she worked raising funds for the Red Cross.[12]
^Hans J. Wollstein, Strangers in Hollywood: The History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II (Scarecrow Press 1994): 210-211.
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