M
Marie de Solla
actress
- Birth name:
- Maria Boam
- Born:
- 1834-10-11, Whitechapel, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1928, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Whitechapel greeted Marie de Solla on 11 October 1834, and the scent of greasepaint soon lured her from its crowded streets to the stage. By 1913 she had stepped before the camera, lending quiet steel to the first screen take on David Copperfield and later the calm resolve of The Vicar of Wakefield. A year on, she faced the lens again in Justice, sealing a brief but indelible place in Britain’s newborn cinema. She slipped away quietly in 1928 in Brighton, Sussex, leaving three silver beams of light to mark her century-long journey.
