Anne Shadwell was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century.
She was one of the first English actresses to appear on stage following the Restoration She was one of six actors recruited in 1660 by William Davenant for the new Duke's Company, acting under her maiden name Anne Gibbs.
While some sources have her acting late into the century, it may be she effectively retired with the formation of the United Company in 1682.
She had an investment in the Drury Lane Theatre in 1709, when she joined a petition to Queen Anne by the manager Christopher Rich, but nothing is known about her after this point.
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