Estelle Brody (15 August 1900 – 3 June 1995)[1] was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s.

Her career was then derailed by a series of ill-advised decisions and she disappeared from sight for many years before re-emerging between the late 1940s and the 1960s in smaller supporting film and television roles.

[1] Brody spent the remainder of the 1920s starring in a number of high-profile productions which earned her critical and popular acclaim as a natural in front of the camera.

Returning from New York, Brody found the British film industry in a state of flux and uncertainty on the cusp of the transition from silents to talkies.

She later acknowledged that this had been a major mistake; not only did she at a stroke alienate a large number of her British fans who accused her of betrayal, but once in Hollywood she found that her status in Britain counted for nothing with American directors.

The few offers made were not the kind of roles she wished to play, and ultimately she would only appear as support in two films in which her characters were billed as "Girl from Kokomo" and "Prisoner".