Gertrude Elliott

Gertrude Elliott (December 14, 1874 – December 24, 1950), later Lady Forbes-Robertson, was an American stage actress, part of an extended family of theatre professionals including her husband, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and her elder sister, Maxine Elliott.

[1] Elliott's career on stage began in 1894, with a role in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, in a company that was touring New York state.

The company was run by Nat C. Goodwin, an actor who soon married Maxine Elliott.

[3] Away from the stage, Elliott starred with her husband in a silent film version of Hamlet in 1913, directed by their friend J. H. Ryley.

[8] There is a plaque marking the birthplace of the Elliott sisters in the Trackside Station in Rockland, Maine.

Gertrude Elliott Forbes-Robertson as Cleopatra