A year later she played the witching elf-child in Yeats's Gaelic fantasy, The Land of Heart's Desire.

Her greatest opportunity came when she was cast for Lovey Mary in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a part she played continuously for two and one-half years.

In the first decade of the 20th century, Taliaferro's husband and manager, Frederic Thompson, announced that her first name would be changed to Nell for billing purposes.

[4] In 1911, her movie career began with the Selig Studios in The Three of Us and the film version of Cinderella[1] co-starring her then-husband Thomas Carrigan.

[7] In February 1914 she participated in a suffrage gathering that drew 1,500 people to honor the work of Anna Howard Shaw.

[8] In 1906, Taliaferro married (as her first husband) Frederic Thompson, who created Luna Park in Coney Island as well as the New York Hippodrome, under whose management she starred in the Broadway play Polly of the Circus.