Seena Owen
actress, miscellaneous, writer
- Birth name:
- Signe Mary Auen
- Born:
- 1894-11-14, Spokane, Washington, USA
- Died:
- 1966-08-15, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress, miscellaneous, writer
Biography
A Spokane winter greeted Seena Owen’s first cry on 14 November 1894; twenty-one winters later she stepped before a camera as Signe Auen in A Yankee from the West (1915). One orbit of the sun later, Griffith carved her into cinema legend—crowned and cruel as Attarea in Intolerance (1916). She slipped into Barbara Riggs’s skin for A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919), earning applause for a performance that crackled across the screen. Between these benchmarks she darted through a string of polished silents, trading dialogue for luminous close-ups until the talkie era finally caught her in Officer Thirteen (1932). At the dawn of 1933 she traded footlights for quiet California days. Seventy-two autumns after her first, Seena Owen closed her eyes in Hollywood on 15 August 1966.
