She was born in Flint, Michigan and died in Laguna Beach, California and was the mother of cinematographer Gilbert Warrenton.

[1] Under the supervision of her uncle, Sheridan Corbyn, Warrenton had played child parts and had been and continued to be on stage and in motion pictures for most of her life.

[5] She had the reputation of being a versatile actress and played an assortment of diverse roles, including as a black woman in The Queen of Jungleland[6] and as a male Chinese Mandarin, complete with a mustache, under director Henry McRae.

[7] In a review of one of her performances, the Pittsburgh Press said that "playing different parts, the more difficult the better, is the work and pastime of Lule Warrenton".

Warrenton directed and produced A Bit o'Heaven in 1917, which featured four-year-old child acting prodigy Mary Louise; this film was an adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel The Birds' Christmas Carol that sold over 1.5 million copies.

Aside from having the rare distinction of being a female director running her own studio, Warrenton also made a name for herself, by notably converting her own private home into a social center for women in Hollywood.

[19] Warrenton stood at a height of five feet, six inches tall, weighed 150 pounds, and had long brown hair with blue eyes.