Laura Keene was a British stage actress and theatre manager. In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York.
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Laura Keene was a British stage actress and theatre manager. In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York. Keene is also notable as the lead actress in the play Our American Cousin, which was attended by President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington on the evening of his assassination.
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Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1826 to 1873 · aged 47
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