Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French actress.[1]
Lynn was born Emily Leigh in Barcelona to an English father who worked at the British Consulate and a half-Spanish and half-German mother. She arrived in Paris at the age of one.[2] She was first married to actor Henry Roussel, then to Charles Peignot, and to theatre critic, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Gautier.
Selected filmography
edit- The Cameo (1913)
- The Torture of Silence (1917)
- The Tenth Symphony (1918)
- The Kiddies in the Ruins (1918)
- Le Vertige (1927)
- A Foolish Maiden (1929)
- The Two Orphans (1933)
- Le Lit à colonnes (1942)
References
edit- ^ BFI.org
- ^ Francis, Ève (1966). "Interviews avec Emmy Lynn" (PDF). Fonds Commission de Recherche Historique. Référence : CRH79-B4. Cinémathèque française (in French). Retrieved 6 April 2019.
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