Lane, Grace (1876–1956)

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Lane, Grace (1876–1956)

English actress. Born Jan 13, 1876, in England; died Jan 14, 1956, in Hove, East Sussex, England; dau. of Rosina Grace (Lilley) Lane and Pierrepont G. Lane; sister of Dorothy Lane (actress, b. 1890); m. Kenneth Douglas (actor, real name Savory).

Made London debut in Parallel Attacks (1894), followed by Our Flat; came to prominence as Lady Babbie in The Little Minister (1898), as Joy in The Secret Orchard (1901), and as Lady Mary Carlyle in Monsieur Beaucaire (1902); other plays include The Rise of Silas Lapham, If Winter Comes, Ariadne in Naxos, The Queen's Husband and The Skin Game; films include The Honeypot, The Feather and The Mad Hatters.