Christine Isie Silver (17 December 1883 – 23 November 1960) was a British stage, film and television actress, and a playwright.

[2] She appeared in Peter Pan (1904), The Lion and the Mouse (1907),[4] Diana of Dobson's (1908),[5] An Englishman's Home (1909),[6] The Speckled Band (1910), George Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play (1911), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1913), The Sister-in-Law (1916),[7] Betty at Bay (1918),[8] The Mayor of Casterbridge (1926),[9] and the title role in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

[10] Later roles included parts in The Cathedral (1930),[11] The Cradle Song (1931),[12] Barnet's Folly (1935)[13] The Unveiling (1938),[14] and A Trip to Scarborough (1944).

[15] Silver was in several silent films, including The Pleydell Mystery (1916), The Labour Leader (1917), The Little Welsh Girl (1920), and Judge Not (1920).

She made the transition to sound films as a character actress, with roles in Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938), Salute John Citizen (1942), Those Kids from Town (1942), Heaven is Round the Corner (1944), Room to Let (1950),[16] and Companions in Crime (1954), and The Hornet's Nest, in 1955, as Becky Crumb, which was her last feature film rôle, with Nora Nicholson.