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  2. Florence Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly [1] until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. [2]

  3. Durgabai Kamat - Wikipedia

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    Durgabai Kamat was a Marathi actress, who was the first actress in Indian cinema. [2] She is known as The First Female Actress in Indian Cinema when she acted in film Mohini Bhasmasur in 1913 at that time when it was not considered an appropriate profession for girls from respectable families.

  4. Margaret Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Hughes (29 May 1630 – 1 October 1719), also Peg Hughes or Margaret Hewes, was an English actress who is often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage, as a result of her appearance on 8 December 1660. [nt 1] Hughes was the mistress of the English Civil War general Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

  5. Women's cinema - Wikipedia

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    Notari's first films are Maria Rosa di Santa Flavia, Carmela la pazza, Bufera d'anime, all made in 1911. Helen Gardner, a Vitagraph Studios player who had won acclaim for her portrayal of Becky Sharp in the 1910 version of Vanity Fair, was the first film actor, male or female, to form her own production company, The Helen Gardner Picture ...

  6. Women in film - Wikipedia

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    The film grossed over $800 million. Not only was the first film a major step forward for women in cinema, Jenkins' sequel film, Wonder Woman 1984, was the first film to enforce the Producers Guild of America anti-sexual harassment guidelines during production. [24] Captain Marvel became Marvel's first

  7. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars - Wikipedia

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    AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."

  8. Lily Gladstone becomes first female actor who identifies as ...

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    Lily Gladstone made history at the Golden Globes on Sunday when she became the first person who identifies as indigenous to win the best performance by a female actor in a dramatic motion picture ...

  9. Anna May Wong - Wikipedia

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    Anna May Wong seated in her mother's lap, c. 1905 This is a duplicate copy of the Certificate of Identity issued to actress Anna May Wong. Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜, Liu Tsong literally meaning "willow frost") on January 3, 1905, on Flower Street in Los Angeles, one block north of Chinatown, in an integrated community of Chinese, Irish, German and Japanese residents.