Nell Shipman
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- Nell Shipman
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- October 25, 1892
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- Scorpio
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- 🇨🇦 Canada
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- Actress, Business Leader, Author
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Biography
Nell Shipman is 133 years old, an actress, from Canada.
Nell Shipman (born Helen Foster-Barham; October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, writer, and director who was active in silent film in the 1910s and 1920s. She used "the girl from God's country" as her sobriquet after starring in God's Country and the Woman. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1892, her family moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1904.
She became interested in performing arts while on a family vacation in the United Kingdom and joined a vaudeville group in 1905. While working in a play she met and married film producer Ernest Shipman and the couple moved to California. Shipman wrote and directed a few films before receiving a contract with Vitagraph Studios.
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