Frieda Inescort
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1901-06-29 (75 years old)
Deathday
1976-02-26
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known As
Freida Inescourt
Frieda Inescourt
Frieda Inescort
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells...
Acting
1955
as Mrs. Lawrence
1951
as Mrs. Ann Vickers
1943
as Lady Jane Ainsley
1939
as Mrs. Lancing
1950
as Mrs. Eldridge
1941
as Mrs. Julia Cortland
1942
as Alma Diedrich
1956
as Mrs. Chappel
1959
as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
1956
as Edith Wadsworth
1940
as Miss Caroline Bingley
1943
as Karen Holliday
1940
as Dorothy Joyce
1941
as Mrs. Stella Rosabelle Armitage
1941
as Elizabeth Warren
1937
as Grace Roark
1960
as Mrs. Mitchell
1937
as Mrs. Philips
1939
as Flora Barton-Williams
1935
as Evelyn Fletcher
1936
as Mrs. Madge Fenwicke-Ralston
1940
as Attorney Mary Ellis
1958
as Mrs. Sherridan
1941
as Ruth Emory
1955
as Evelyn Hammond
1936
as Princess Helena
1959
as Aunt Margaret
1942
as Mrs. Menard
1943
as Portia Winthrop
1942
as Olivia Nesbit
1954
as Signora Di Gambetta
1944
as Ettie Clark
1935
as Ann West
1939
as Linda Marsh
1936
as Mary Beaton
1936
as Rosamond Melford
1947
as Evelyn Bailey
1937
as Dorothy Hilton
1937
as Portia Merriman
1936
as Alice Winslow
1941
as Mrs. Wayne
1943
as Narrator
1941
as Mrs. Dewey Roberts
1939
as Dr. Judith Randall Graeme
1953
as Lily Mae Gorham
1939
as Mary Cabot
1943
as Madame Molotov (uncredited)
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