Constance Collier

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1878-01-22 (77 years old)

Deathday

1955-04-25

Place of Birth

Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK

Constance Collier

Biography

Constance Collier (born Laura Constance Hardie; 22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach. She made her stage debut at the age of three, when she played Fairy Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and later appeared in several Shakespearean stage plays. Her brief visit to New York in the 1910s yielded her work in a few silent films. When she was diagnosed with diabetes, she became the first ever patient in Europe to receive insulin treatment following its recent discovery. She served as an acting coach for many silent film stars in 1920s Hollywood following the tumultuous change to "talkies". ...

Acting

1948

Rope

as Mrs. Anita Atwater

1946

The Dark Corner

as Mrs. Kingsley

1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Lady Constantia Lorridaile

2001

Rope Unleashed

as Self (archive footage)

1947

An Ideal Husband

as Lady Markby

1950

Whirlpool

as Tina Cosgrove

1937

Stage Door

as Miss Luther

1937

Wee Willie Winkie

as Mrs. Allardyce

1937

A Damsel in Distress

as Lady Caroline

1937

Thunder in the City

as Duchess Of Glenavon

1945

Kitty

as Lady Susan Dowitt

1947

The Perils of Pauline

as Julia Gibbs

1935

Professional Soldier

as Lady Augusta

1936

Girls' Dormitory

as Professor Augusta Wimmer

1935

Shadow of Doubt

as Aunt Melissa

1938

Zaza

as Nathalie

1916

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

1922

1946

Monsieur Beaucaire

as The Queen of France

1940

Susan and God

as Lady Wigstaff

1940

Half a Sinner

as Mrs. Jefferson Breckenbridge

1927

Downhill

as Dance Hall Lady with Purse (uncredited)

1948

1920

Bleak House

as Lady Dedlock

Production

1929

The Return of the Rat

as Theatre Play

1935

Peter Ibbetson

as Adaptation

1925

The Rat

as Writer

1937

The Rat

as Theatre Play

1929

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Dialogue Coach

1921

Forever

as Scenario Writer

1927

Downhill

as Original Story

1945

Kitty

as Dialogue Coach

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