Known For: Scottish actress
Category: Actresses
Occupation: stage actor, film actor
Country: United Kingdom
City: Edinburgh
Date of Birth: Saturday, 29 June 1901
Died: 1976-02-26 00:00:00 in Q1337818
Frieda Inescort was a Scottish actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape and Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
| BirthPlace | Edinburgh |
| Wikipedia | Frieda_Inescort |
Born in Edinburgh, Inescort was the daughter of Scots-born journalist John "Jock" Wrightman and actress Elaine Inescourt (née Charlotte Elizabeth Ihle), who was of German and Polish descent. They married in 1896 but parted ways when their daughter was still a young child. While she lived in Britain, Inescort wrote for a newspaper in London and worked as secretary to Lord Astor. (Another source says that she was secretary to Lady Astor.) After going to the United States, she not only acted but also worked as associate editor of The Exporter's Encyclopedia.
