Carrie Daumery

Biography

Carrie Daumery was born Frederica Carolina Mess in Hague, Netherlands (wrongfully Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress violinist and who married Belgian composer and pianist, Théophile Ysaÿe (1865-1918). After her husband's death in Nice, France, she moved to the United States. She had acted in two short films in France in 1908, and began her career in Hollywood films in 1921 as a bit player at poverty row studios, eventually moving to the major studios. She died on July 1, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her son with Ysaÿe, John Daumery, was born in 1898 in Brussels, Belgium, and became a director for Warner Brothers and other studios.