Frances Anne Kemble

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica.. She had a recurring role in the television series Twin Peaks. Her various volumes of reminiscences contain much valuable material for the social and dramatic history of the period. She received another Supporting Actress nomination in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God. These were followed by Records of a Girlhood (1878), Records of Later Life (1882), Notes on some of Shakespeare's Plays (1882), Far Away and Long Ago (1889), and Further Records (1891). She appeared in the Australian film Tim opposite a very young Mel Gibson, but perhaps her most famous role in her later career was as the fanatically religious mother in Carrie, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Besides her plays, Francis the First, unsuccessfully produced in 1832, The Star of Seville (1837), a volume of Poems (1844), and a book of Italian travel, A Year of Consolation (1847), she published a volume of her Journal in 1835, and in 1863 another (dealing with life on the Georgia plantation), and also a volume of Plays, including translations from Dumas and Schiller. Once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family.

During this period Fanny Kemble was a prominent and popular figure in the social life of London. In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1877 she returned to England, where she lived in London using her maiden name till her death. Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s, in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. In 1847 she returned to the stage, from which she had retired on her marriage, and later, following her father's example, appeared with much success as a Shakespearian reader. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan in Louisa. They were divorced in 1849. Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young.

In 1832 she went with her father to America, and in 1834 she married there a Southern planter, Pierce Butler. Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. She played all the principal women's parts, notably Portia, Beatrice and Lady Teazle, but Julia in Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback, especially written for her, was perhaps her greatest success. Her attractive personality at once made her a great favorite, her popularity enabling her father to recoup his losses as a manager. She first appeared on the stage on October 26, 1829 as Juliet at Covent Garden.

Frances Anne Kemble (Fanny Kemble) (November 27, 1800 - January 15, 1893), the actress and author, was Charles Kemble's elder daughter; she was born in London, and educated chiefly in France.