Gladys Cooper
Actor
Biography
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
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Filmography
My Fair Lady
as Mrs. Higgins 1964
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Hamilton 1947
Now, Voyager
as Mrs. Henry Vale 1942
The Song of Bernadette
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous 1943
Separate Tables
as Mrs. Railton-Bell 1958
The Pirate
as Aunt Inez 1948
The List of Adrian Messenger
as Mrs. Karoudjian 1963
That Hamilton Woman
as Lady Francis Nelson 1941
Madame Bovary
as Madame Dupuis 1949
Kitty Foyle
as Mrs. Strafford 1940
Mr. Lucky
as Captain Veronica Steadman 1943
The Black Cat
as Myrna Hartley 1941
The Happiest Millionaire
as Aunt Mary Drexel 1967
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock 1949
Thunder on the Hill
as Mother Superior 1951
The Valley of Decision
as Clarissa Scott 1945