She was not exceedingly precocious as was Bijou Heron, who acted the role of Adrienne in Monsieur Alphonse, as a juvenile player.

[8] She played Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus when A Comedy of Errors was staged at the Star Theatre, Broadway & 13th Street, in September 1885.

The terms allowed Fernandez a liberal salary, furnished her stage costumes and all her clothing, and supervised her education.

The elder Fernandez remarked to a friend that her daughter had become preoccupied with riding horseback "in divided skirts, smoking cigarettes, and making high balls".

[16] In the fall of 1902 Fernandez teamed with Charles Waldron to lead the Herbert Stock Company in presenting Aristocracy by Bronson Howard.

[17] Adapted by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille, the play was eventually called The Charity Ball.

Fernandez portrayed Ann Cruger, the daughter of a Wall Street tycoon and an enemy of her sinful brother.

[20] Fernandez worked as a talent scout and later in the same capacity with both Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Warner Bros. She signed Patricia Collinge at the age of 16 and found her a role in The Queen of the Moulin Rouge.

[21] She appeared in New Toys (1925), a silent feature which stars Richard Barthelmess, Mary Hay, and Clifton Webb.

[22] In Just Suppose (1926), a story of the Prince of Wales who falls in love with an American woman, she played Mrs Stafford, mother to leading lady Lois Moran.