Carrie Turner (actress)
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Carrie Turner (1863 – October 12, 1897) was an American actress known for her stage performances in the 1880s and 1890s.[1]
Turner was born in Albany, New York, where she graduated from Albany High School.[2] She first came to the public's popular attention as a member of Daniel Frohman's company at the Madison Square Theatre on Broadway. While appearing in the successful Young Miss Winthrop it was revealed that she had married Albert J. His, a Swiss citizen. She retired from the stage for a time to move to Switzerland. After they divorced, His took their child back from the United States to Switzerland without approval, which caused a number of headlines.
Turner married John Mack in 1894,[3] to whom he was married at the time of her death at the Dansville sanitarium on October 12, 1897.[1] She is buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery, where her gravestone reads "She was a player, that taking her all in all we shall not look upon her like again."
Selected appearances[edit]
- Edmund Kean (1882) as Anna Danby at the Academy of Music (New York debut)[4]
- Young Miss Winthrop (1882) as Constance Winthrop
- Paul Kauver (1888) as Diane at the Standard Theatre
- Niobe (1891) as Niobe at the Bijou Theatre[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b (13 October 1897). Actress Carrie Turner Dead, The New York Times
- ^ Reynolds, Culver. Albany Chronicles, p. 710 (1906)
- ^ (27 February 1894). Carrie Turner Married Again - The Actress's Second Husband a Sporting Man of Albany, The New York Times
- ^ a b (23 October 1897). Death of Carrie Turner, New York Dramatic Mirror, p. 17, col. 1.
External links[edit]
Media related to Carrie Turner at Wikimedia Commons- Carrie Turner at Find a Grave
