Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1885-07-28 (70 years old)
Deathday
1955-04-07
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also known As
Theodosia Burr Goodman
Theodosia Goodman
Theo DeCoppet
From Wikipedia Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost because the 1937 Fox vault fire destroyed most of her films. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film. Bara died of stomach cancer in 1955 at the age...
1919
as Kathleen Mavourneen
1915
as La Gioconda
1915
as Helen Talboys
1915
as Henriette
1915
as Iza
1916
as Juliet DeCordova
1919
as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
1916
as Mary Doone
1917
as Princess Petrovitch
1917
as Vera Herbert
1917
as Jess
1917
as Marguerite Gautier
1918
as Mary Lynde
1919
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
1919
as Olga Dolan
1915
as The Vampire
1917
as Cleopatra
1926
as Herself
1918
as Salome
1931
as Self
1925
as Caroline Knollys
1916
as Lady Isabel Carlisle
1916
as Juliet
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
1917
as Esmeralda
1918
as Lolette
1916
as Laura Bruffins
1919
as Princess Zara
1916
as Elsie Drummond
1926
as Madame Mysterieux
1915
as Carmen
1919
as Marie Bernais
1919
as Marie Lohr
1933
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1918
as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
1917
as Lisza Tapenka
1918
as Maria Valverda
1917
as Madame du Barry
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1915
as Ferdinande Martin
1916
as Cigarette
1939
as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
1914
as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
1915
as Rosa
1918
as Bava
2006
as Archival Footage
1916
as Vania Lazar
1915
as Francesca Brabaut
1915
as Celia Friedlander
1918
as Story
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