Moya Nugent

She made a few broadcasts and three silent films but was chiefly known as a stage performer, and was particularly associated with the works of Noël Coward, appearing in twelve of his plays and two of his revues.

Her parts were: Eva Blake in We Were Dancing; Walters in Hands Across the Sea; Elsie Gow, the adenoidal schoolgirl, in Fumed Oak; Emily Valance in Family Album; Princess Elena Krassiloff in Ways and Means; Beryl Waters in Still Life; and Hester More in the single performance given of Star Chamber.

[1] Nugent played in three more pantomimes and children's shows after her early appearances in them: the title role in Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Edinburgh 1920); Polly Perkins in Robinson Crusoe (Opera House, Manchester, 1926), and Zoe in The Three Musketeers (Drury Lane, 1930).

[1] For the BBC Nugent made occasional studio broadcasts, as a singer on variety programmes, and as an actress in both light and serious drama, including the popular Mrs Dale's Diary.

She was also heard in relays of shows and plays in which she was appearing in the West End, including All Clear, Blithe Spirit and London to Brighton.

[6] In silent films, Nugent played the Marchioness in a 1913 adaptation of The Old Curiosity Shop,[7] Sybil Garfield in The Lights of Home (1920);[8] and was in The Auction Mart in 1920.