Women Film Pioneers Project

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Argentina

Emilia Saleny

Australia

Elsa Chauvel

Mona Donaldson

Agnes Gavin

Dorothy Gordon

Kate Howarde

Annette Kellerman

Louise Lovely

Lottie Lyell

Isabel McDonagh

Phyllis McDonagh

Paulette McDonagh

Bess Meredyth

Caroline Frances Pugliese

Señora Spencer

Beatrice Maude Tildesley

Austria

Carmen Cartellieri

Ida Jenbach

Louise Kolm-Fleck

Brazil

Eva Nil

Carmen Santos

Cleo de Verberena

Canada

Marie de Kerstrat

Emma Gendron

Jenny Gilbertson

Ray Lewis

Cathleen McCarthy

Dorothea Mitchell

Lotte Reiniger

Nell Shipman

May Watkis

Chile

Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña

Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna

Gabriela von Bussenius Vega

China

Fan Xuepeng

Hu Ping

Pearl Ing

Louise Kolm-Fleck

Pu Shunqing

Tazuko Sakane

Helen Wang

Xie Caizhen

Yan Shanshan

Yang Naimei

Colombia

Kathleen Romoli

Croatia

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Czechoslovakia

Thea Červenková

Suzanne Marwille

Denmark

Harriet Bloch

Gerd Egede-Nissen

Aud Egede-Nissen

Asta Nielsen

Emilie Sannom

Valda Valkyrien

England

Muriel Alleyne

Dorothea Baird

Iris Barry

Laura Bayley

Sarah Bernhardt

Paula Blackton

Jessica Elvira Borthwick

Constance Bromley

May Clark

Elsie Cohen

Dorothea Donn-Byrne

Nell Emerald

Dorothy Farnum

Elinor Glyn

Lydia Hayward

Margaret Hepworth

Caroline Lejeune

Leila Lewis

Enid Lorimer

Christabel Lowndes-Yates

Blanche MacIntosh

Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend

Isabel McDonagh

Abby Meehan

Jackeydawra Melford

Mary Murillo

Mary O’Connor

Lotte Reiniger

Alma Reville

Alice Rosenthal

Encarnacion Rosa Scott

Henderina Victoria Scott

Marie Stopes

Margaret Turnbull

Florence Turner

Ada Aline Urban

Finland

Gerda Hintze

Aili Kari

Jenny Strömberg

Katri Viita

France

Sarah Bernhardt

Virgínia de Castro e Almeida

Berthe Dagmar

Marie de Kerstrat

Renée Deliot

Lucie Derain

Fabienne Fabrèges

Dorothy Farnum

Alice Guy Blaché

Genevieve Harris

Diana Karenne

Georgette Méliès

Christiane Mendelys

Mary Murillo

Musidora

Marguerite Renoir

Eliane Tayar

Élisabeth Thuillier

Berthe Thuillier

Margaret Turnbull

Marguerite Viel

Germany

Harriet Bloch

Carmen Cartellieri

Elsie Cohen

Gerd Egede-Nissen

Ada Egede-Nissen

Aud Egede-Nissen

Ruth Goetz

Ida Jenbach

Diana Karenne

Antonina Khanzhonkova

Louise Kolm-Fleck

Suzanne Marwille

Asta Nielsen

Rosa Porten

Lotte Reiniger

Emilie Sannom

Stella F. Simon

Thea von Harbou

Global

Aloha Wanderwell Baker

Hong Kong

Esther Eng

Fan Xuepeng

Yan Shanshan

Hungary

Carmen Cartellieri

India

Constance Bromley

Ireland

May Clark

Dorothea Donn-Byrne

Frances Baker Farrell

Máirín Hayes

Mary Manning

Ellen O’Mara Sullivan

Mrs. M.T. Pender

Lettice Ramsey

Italy

Gemma Bellincioni

Francesca Bertini

Bianca Virginia Camagni

Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto

Renée Deliot

Fabienne Fabrèges

Elvira Giallanella

Diana Karenne

Elvira Notari

Lotte Reiniger

Emilie Sannom

Matilde Serao

Daisy Sylvan

Esterina Zuccarone

Japan

Tazuko Sakane

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Mexico

Adelina Barrasa

Cube Bonifant

Mimí Derba

Adriana Ehlers

Dolores Ehlers

Cándida Beltrán Rendón

Juliet Barrett Rublee

Adela Sequeyro

Carmen Toscano

Elena Sánchez Valenzuela

New Zealand

Kate Howarde

Phyllis McDonagh

Northern Ireland

Máirín Hayes

Norway

Gurly Drangsholt

Gerd Egede-Nissen

Ada Egede-Nissen

Aud Egede-Nissen

Fernanda Nissen

Peru

Teresita Arce

Ángela Ramos de Rotalde

Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú

Stefanía Socha

Poland

Nina Niovilla

Stefania Zahorska

Portugal

Virgínia de Castro e Almeida

Russia

Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko

Natalia Bakhareva

Valentina Brumberg

Zinaida Brumberg

Antonina Khanzhonkova

Aleksandra Khokhlova

Anna Mar

Ol’ga Rakhmanova

Esfir Shub

Elizaveta Svilova

Elizaveta Thiemann

Samoa

Scotland

Jenny Gilbertson

Soviet Union

Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko

Valentina Brumberg

Zinaida Brumberg

Aleksandra Khokhlova

Ol’ga Rakhmanova

Esfir Shub

Elizaveta Svilova

Spain

Helena Cortesina

María Luz Morales Godoy

Sweden

Harriet Bloch

Marie Louise Gagner

Greta Håkansson

Anna Hofman-Uddgren

Alva Lundin

The Netherlands

Elsie Cohen

Adriënne Solser

Caroline van Dommelen

The Philippines

Isabel Acuña

Tunisia

Haydée Chikly

Turkey

Sabahat Filmer

Bedia Muvahhit

Neyyire Neyir

United States

Maude Adams

Audrie Alspaugh

Tsuru Aoki

Dorothy Arzner

Gertrude Atherton

Leah Baird

Hettie Gray Baker

Aloha Wanderwell Baker

Ruth Ann Baldwin

Bessie Barriscale

Iris Barry

Anne Bauchens

Clara Beranger

Ouida Bergère

Sarah Bernhardt

Marguerite Bertsch

Cora Johnstone Best

Marian Constance Blackton

Paula Blackton

Anita Maris Boggs

Margaret Booth

Bertha Muzzy Bower

Madeline Brandeis

Marvin Breckinridge

Beta Breuil

Adele S. Buffington

Betty Burbridge

Hazel Burnett

Elizabeth R. Carpenter

Elsa Chauvel

Mrs. George Randolph Chester

Josephine Clement

Lenore Coffee

Mabel Condon

Kate Corbaley

Sada Cowan

Grace Cunard

Virginia Dale

Helena Smith Dayton

Marie de Kerstrat

Beatrice deMille

Beulah Marie Dix

Ruth Gould Dolesé

Dorothea Donn-Byrne

Maria C. Downs

Marie Dressler

Mrs. Sidney Drew

Lillian Ducey

Lucy Duff-Gordon

Winifred Dunn

Winnifred Eaton

Adriana Ehlers

Dolores Ehlers

Esther Eng

Marion Fairfax

Dot Farley

Dorothy Farnum

Flora Finch

Cissy Fitzgerald

Helen Gardner

Gene Gauntier

Angela Murray Gibson

Lillian Gish

Eloyce King Patrick Gist

Elinor Glyn

Dorothy Gordon

Dorothy Gottlieb

Ethel Grandin

Corinne Griffith

Elizabeth B. Grimball

Texas Guinan

Alice Guy Blaché

Gladys Hall

Genevieve Harris

Gale Henry

Katharine Hilliker

Helen Holmes

Drusilla Dunjee Houston

Kate Howarde

Alice Howell

Zora Neale Hurston

Eugenie Magnus Ingleton

Julia Crawford Ivers

Alice Smythe Jay

Osa Johnson

Agnes Christine Johnston

Flossie A. Jones

Maibelle Heikes Justice

Helen Keller

Annette Kellerman

Bradley King

Viola Lawrence

Florence Lawrence

Marion Leonard

Sonya Levien

Ray Lewis

Beulah Livingstone

Anita Loos

Jane Loring

Hope Loring

Ruth Harriet Louise

Louise Lovely

Josephine Lovett

Frederica Sagor Maas

Mary MacLane

Jeanie Macpherson

Cleo Madison

Mary Manning

Frances Marion

Sarah Y. Mason

June Mathis

Margaret Mayo

Vera McCord

Elizabeth McGaffey

Bess Meredyth

Mary Lawton Metcalfe

Beatriz Michelena

Lorna Moon

Irene Morra

Jane Murfin

Mary Murillo

Mae Murray

Nancy Naumburg

Alla Nazimova

Mabel Normand

Mary O’Connor

Ellen O’Mara Sullivan

Ruth Bryan Owen

Ida May Park

Louella Parsons

Harriet Parsons

Frances Taylor Patterson

Frances Peck

Olga Petrova

Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett

Mary Pickford

Gertrude Price

Olga Printzlau

Natacha Rambova

Josephine Rector

Dorothy Davenport Reid

Alma Reville

Eslanda Robeson

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Gladys Rosson

Fanchon Royer

Juliet Barrett Rublee

Alice B. Russell

Lillian Case Russell

Blanche Sewell

Nell Shipman

Audrey Forfar Shippam

Stella F. Simon

Rose Smith

Tressie Souders

Anita Stewart

Ruth Stonehouse

Gloria Swanson

Constance Talmadge

Norma Talmadge

Alice Terry

Gertrude Homan Thanhouser

Fay Tincher

Wanda Tuchock

Margaret Turnbull

Florence Turner

Madge Tyrone

Harriette Underhill

Eve Unsell

Ada Aline Urban

Valda Valkyrien

Lule Warrenton

Lois Weber

Clare West

Pearl White

Maria P. Williams

Kathlyn Williams

Edna Williams

Elsie Jane Wilson

Margery Wilson

Margaret J. Winkler

Marion E. Wong

Anzia Yezierska

Dorothy Yost

Clara Kimball Young