Discovered in 1913 by theater director David Belasco, who would go on to manage her stage career, she was noted for portraying fiery, hot-blooded women of the vamp type.

[3] Franz reportedly named his daughter Lenore due to his fondness for the Edgar Allan Poe poem, "The Raven".

She worked briefly as a film actress for Essanay Studios and joined another stock company in Schenectady, New York.

[10] Belasco, who would go on "fishing trips" to find new stage talents, recalled that it was often a long time between "bites," but he enjoyed the sport as he sometimes would "hook a big one.

"[11]: 367 Biographer William Winter called her a "born actress," someone who Belasco hoped would fulfill the theater's need for talent.

Winter says that Ulric's personality traits allowed her to play the role realistically as written: Miss Lenore Ulric, who acts the part, is possessed of exceptional natural advantages,—youth; a handsome face; abundant hair; expressive eyes, dark and beautiful; a slender, lithe figure; a sympathetic voice; strong, attractive personality, and an engaging manner.

Her acting reveals force of character, experience, observation, thought, sensibility, ardor, definite purpose, and unusual command of the mechanics of art...She is an admirable listener, an excellent speaker...The disposition she exhibits in this performance seems altogether childlike and lovely.

According to one critic, "Miss Ulric's youth fits her peculiarly for the part, while her undisputed genius as an emotional actress justifies the prediction that she would be the greatest Camille who has ever been seen upon the stage.

"[14] In 1947, after doing seven films in Hollywood, she returned to the Belasco Theater as Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, which starred Godfrey Tearle and Katharine Cornell in the title roles.

(Future stars Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton, and Charlton Heston had small roles in the production.

Ulric returned to Broadway in 1940, acting in The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway and again in 1947, in a revival of Antony and Cleopatra.

"[1]She died of heart failure in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, on December 30, 1970, aged 78.