Loraine, Violet (1886–1956)

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Loraine, Violet (1886–1956)

English actress. Name variations: Violet Mary Loraine. Born July 26, 1886, in London, England; died July 18, 1956, in Newcastle, England; sister of actor Ernest Sefton; m. Edward Raylton Joicey, 1921.

Made stage debut at Drury Lane in the pantomime Mother Goose (1902), followed by The Medal and the Maid, The Duchess of Dantzic, Sergeant Blue and Our Flat, among others; 1st appeared on variety stage at the Palace in The New Régime (1905) and on music-hall stage in a solo turn at Oxford; other plays include Hop o' my Thumb (lead role), Business as Usual, Push and Go, The Bing Boys are Here, The Whirligig and London Paris and New York; retired from the stage (1922), reappearing in Clara Gibbings (1928); films include Britannia of Billingsgate and Road House.