Ivy Millais

Ivy Millais (25 December 1883 – 29 July 1969) was a British film and stage actress of the early 20th-century. She had a notable career in silent film.

Ivy Millais as Stephanus (left) and Marie Leonhard as Mercia in The Sign of the Cross (1903)

She was born in Mile End in London in 1883 as Isabel Katherine Malenoir, the second of four children of Katharine and Samuel Richard Malenoir, a fish salesman.[1] Her stage roles included: Stephanus in The Sign of the Cross (1903-04), and The Prince and the Beggar Maid (1908-09), both at the Grand Theatre, Southampton.[2]

Ivy Millais as Oliver Twist and John McMahon as Fagin in Oliver Twist (1912)

Millais appeared in various films in the silent era, including: Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist (1912); Mate in The Cloister and the Hearth (1913); Ethel Loder in The Recalling of John Grey (1915); Mary Ashford in The Bottle (1915) opposite Albert Chevalier as her husband; Sarah in Trelawney of the Wells (1916); Jane Peach in Comin' Thro' the Rye (1916), and Liza, The Grain of Sand in A Grain of Sand (1917) opposite Stewart Rome and Chrissie White.[3] She was married to the surveyor Verney Charles Hannam Warren (1885-1963) from 1914[4] to his death.

Ivy Millais died in 1969 in Thames Ditton in Surrey.

References
  1. Isabel K Malenoir in the 1891 England Census
  2. Ivy Millais Theatricalia website
  3. Ivy Millais British Film Institute (BFI) database
  4. Isabel Katherine Malenoir in the Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937
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