Mary Moore (stage actress)

Mary Charlotte Moore (3 July 1861 – 6 April 1931), Lady Wyndham, was an English actress and theatrical manager.

[2] She made her stage debut at the Gaiety Theatre, London, under the management of John Hollingshead, but soon retired into private life on her marriage in 1878 to the playwright James Albery.

[4] The actor-manager Charles Wyndham, a good friend of the Alberys, offered Moore a place in his theatrical companies.

He was starring at the Criterion Theatre, London, in The Candidate, which, like many of his productions, was a judiciously Anglicised adaptation of a French farce.

[1][3] The Times obituarist of Moore commented, "The year 1886 was that in which she began to emerge from the crowd", playing the heroine, Ada Ingot, in David Garrick.

[3] The Times said of her: After Wyndham's death, in 1919, Moore appeared as Lady Bagley in the comedy Our Mr Hepplewhite at the Criterion, heading a company that included Kate Cutler, Arthur Wontner and the young Leslie Howard.

[10] She died at her house in York Terrace, Regent's Park on 6 April 1931, at the age of 69, and was buried alongside Wyndham in Hampstead Cemetery.