Edith Craig

Biography

Edith Craig born in Hertfordshire in 1869 from a famous theatre family, daughter of the legendary stage star Ellen Terry and architect-designer Edward William Godwin. Edith became a well-known stage director, producer, costume designer and actress making her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, sophisticated upper-class lady in a handful of film roles first appearing as the 'Dresser' in 'Her Greatest Performance' starring her mother Ellen Terry and Dennis Neilson-Terry and directed by Fred Paul for the Ideal Film Company in 1916, followed by a few other film roles at Master (Butcher) Film Company and the British Gaumont Film Co until 1923. later she was seen in a few talkies until 'Smashing the Rackets' in 1938. she was also a early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England and a classical pianist, she died in Kent in 1947 aged 78.