Miriam Cooper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miriam Cooper (November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1923 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miriam Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1891-11-06 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Died
- 1976-04-12
Known for
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) — Margaret Cameron
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — The Friendless One
- Home, Sweet Home (1914) — The Fiancee
- The Mother and the Law (1919) — The Friendly One
- The Confederate Ironclad (1912) — Rose
- The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (1993) — Self (Archive footage)
- Kindred of the Dust (1922) — Nan of the Sawdust Pile
- Is Money Everything? (1923) — Marion Brand
- Shenandoah (1913) — Madeline West
- A Railroad Wooing (1913) — Alice Holmes - Jim's Sweetheart
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913) — Topsy - Aunt Ophelia's Slave
- Evangeline (1919) — Evangeline
- Serenade (1921) — Maria del Carmen
- The Darling of the CSA (1912)
- The Broken Wing (1923) — Inez Villera
- Her Accidental Husband (1923) — Rena Goring