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Mar 26, 1883 Bloomington, Illinois, United States Died on 11 Mar 1964 (aged 80)
actress and film director
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About Cleo Madison
- Cleo Madison (March 26, 1883 – March 11, 1964) was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who worked heavily in early Hollywood in a career spanning from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. Madison began her career on the stage.
- By 1910, she had begun performing as part of a theatre troupe known as the Santa Barbara Stock Company in California.
- In 1913, she was contracted by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company to begin appearing in feature films.
- Madison established a name for herself as an actress with performances in films such as The Trey o' Hearts (1914).
- She is also considered a pioneering female director with a number of shorts and two feature films, A Soul Enslaved (1916) and Her Bitter Cup (1916), to her credit. She made several efforts to set up a production company before leaving show business in 1924.
- She died from a heart-attack in 1964 at the age of 80.
