Miss Nellie Farren

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Contributor Miss Nellie Farren
Other Names Ellen Farren
Gender Female
Nationality English
Date of Birth 16 April 1848
Date of Death 29 April 1904
Functions Actor, Comedian, Actor and Singer
Notes English actress and singer best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre. Born into a theatrical family, Farren began acting as a child. From 1868 to 1892, she performed at the Gaiety Theatre, which specialised in musical burlesque, becoming famous in the male and principal boy roles.In the 1880s, she created roles in the series of famous Gaiety burlesques. She also became a co-producer of the Gaiety Theatre. Toured Australia with Fred Leslie in 1888 and 1891. Later in 1891, Farren suffered an attack of rheumatic fever while in Australia. Farren died in London in 1904, aged 56, of cardiac failure.
Events

Actor

Actor and Singer

Fred Leslie - Actor, Actor and Singer

Alfred Cellier - Conductor

Harriet Coveney - Actor

Charles Danby - Actor and Singer

Sylvia Grey - Actor and Singer

Richard Henry - Playwright

Marion Hood - Actor and Singer

David James - Actor

Letty Lind - Actor and Singer

Meyer Lutz - Composer

Fanny Marriott - Actor and Singer

Odell - Actor

May Russell - Actor and Singer

Ethel Selwyn - Actor and Singer

Henry Pottinger Stephens - Librettist

Wadman - Actor

Roland Watts Phillips - Actor and Singer

F Wood - Actor

William Yardley - Librettist

George Edwardes London Gaiety Company

Williamson, Garner and Musgrove
Resources
Data Set AusStage
Contributor Identifier 477252