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Jan 01, 0001 Died on 01 Jan 1792 (aged 1791)

English dancer and actress

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About Mary Bulkley

  • Mary Bulkley, née Wilford (1747/8 – 1792), known professionally as Mrs Bulkley, Miss Bulkley, and later Mrs Barresford, was an English eighteenth-century dancer and comedy stage actress.
  • She performed at various theatres, especially Covent Garden Theatre, the Theatre Royal, Dublin, the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the Theatre Royal Haymarket and Shrewsbury Theatre.
  • She performed in all or most of the Shakespearean comedies, and in several tragedies, besides many contemporary comedy plays.
  • She played the part of Hamlet at least twice.
  • She was considered a beauty when young, and her talent was praised.
  • She married George Bulkley and later Captain Ebenezer Barresford, and openly took several lovers.
  • Her early career was successful, but later she was hissed on stage due to her extra-marital affairs, and she died in poverty.

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