Hippisley, Jane (d. 1791)
Hippisley, Jane (d. 1791)
English actress . Name variations: Mrs. Green. Died in 1791; daughter of John Hippisley (d. 1748, an actor and dramatist); sister of E. Hippisley and John Hippisley (d. 1767, an actor and author).
Jane Hippisley played Ophelia opposite David Garrick's Hamlet at Goodman's Fields. She was also the original Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.
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