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Muriel Alleyne
Tsuru Aoki
Teresita Arce
Leah Baird
Dorothea Baird
Hettie Gray Baker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Bessie Barriscale
Laura Bayley
Gemma Bellincioni
Ouida Bergère
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Marian Constance Blackton
Paula Blackton
Cube Bonifant
Madeline Brandeis
Betty Burbridge
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Carmen Cartellieri
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
Haydée Chikly
May Clark
Elsie Cohen
Helena Cortesina
Grace Cunard
Berthe Dagmar
Mimí Derba
Maria C. Downs
Marie Dressler
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Gerd Egede-Nissen
Ada Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen
Nell Emerald
Fabienne Fabrèges
Fan Xuepeng
Dot Farley
Dorothy Farnum
Flora Finch
Cissy Fitzgerald
Helen Gardner
Gene Gauntier
Agnes Gavin
Angela Murray Gibson
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gordon
Ethel Grandin
Corinne Griffith
Texas Guinan
Máirín Hayes
Lydia Hayward
Gale Henry
Margaret Hepworth
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Helen Holmes
Kate Howarde
Alice Howell
Hu Ping
Pearl Ing
Osa Johnson
Diana Karenne
Aili Kari
Helen Keller
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Florence Lawrence
Marion Leonard
Anita Loos
Hope Loring
Louise Lovely
Josephine Lovett
Lottie Lyell
Mary MacLane
Jeanie Macpherson
Cleo Madison
Mary Manning
Frances Marion
Suzanne Marwille
Margaret Mayo
Vera McCord
Isabel McDonagh
Jackeydawra Melford
Georgette Méliès
Christiane Mendelys
Bess Meredyth
Beatriz Michelena
Dorothea Mitchell
Mae Murray
Musidora
Bedia Muvahhit
Alla Nazimova
Neyyire Neyir
Asta Nielsen
Eva Nil
Nina Niovilla
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Harriet Parsons
Olga Petrova
Mary Pickford
Rosa Porten
Pu Shunqing
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Natacha Rambova
Josephine Rector
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Lotte Reiniger
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Marguerite Renoir
Alma Reville
Eslanda Robeson
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Alice B. Russell
Emilia Saleny
Emilie Sannom
Carmen Santos
Adela Sequeyro
Nell Shipman
Stella F. Simon
Adriënne Solser
Anita Stewart
Ruth Stonehouse
Gloria Swanson
Daisy Sylvan
Constance Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Elizaveta Thiemann
Fay Tincher
Florence Turner
Madge Tyrone
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Valda Valkyrien
Caroline van Dommelen
Cleo de Verberena
Helen Wang
Lule Warrenton
Lois Weber
Pearl White
Maria P. Williams
Kathlyn Williams
Elsie Jane Wilson
Margery Wilson
Marion E. Wong
Xie Caizhen
Yan Shanshan
Yang Naimei
Clara Kimball Young
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