Annie Robe

Annie Robe (1866–1922)[citation needed] was an English-born American stage actress prominent in the final decades of the Victorian Era, the 1880s and 1890s.

[1] Robe's father was a scenic artist, and her mother was English actress Eliza Rugg.

Lester Wallack discovered her on a visit to England and brought her to the United States to act with his company.

[2] She was distantly related, through marriage, to Ethel Barrymore, whose husband Russell Griswold Colt was a relative of Robe's husband Daniel Paine Griswold.

[3] Robe died a widow at Pittsfield, Massachusetts on July 26, 1922.