Eugenia (or Eugenie) Thais Lawton was raised and educated in Louisville, Kentucky,[1][2] the daughter of Joseph Eugene Lawton and Caroline Thais Magrane; her father was English and her mother was French.

[7] She appeared in shows including Lost River (1900), The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1907),[8] The Revellers (1909), Strife (1909), The School for Scandal (1909), Don (1909), Liz the Mother, The Witch (1910), Brand (1910),[9] The Thunderbolt (1910), Vanity Fair (1911), The Piper (1911), The Blue Bird (1911), The Winter's Tale (1911),[10] A Single Man (1911),[11] John Gabriel Borkman (1915), The Chief (1915),[12] Caliban by the Yellow Sands (1916),[13] The Guilty Man (1916), The Masquerader (1917), The Crimson Alibi (1919), The Blue Flame (1920), The Wandering Jew (1921), The Exciters (1922), Jitta's Atonement (1923), Thumbs Down (1923), Two Strangers from Nowhere (1924), The Red Falcon (1924), Cain (1924), Mister Romeo (1927), Napoleon (1928), The Novice and the Duke (1929), The Royal Virgin (1930), The Ninth Guest (1930), Philip Goes Forth (1931), Going Gay (1933), Birthright (1933), Times Have Changed (1935), Love in my Fashion (1937), and Romantic Mr. Dickens (1940).

[15] Lawton appeared in two silent films, The Battle Cry of Peace (1915), and The Pardon (1915).

[16] Later in life she taught acting; among her students was actress Marie Wallace.

[17] In 1922, Lawton was driving when her car struck and killed a child who ran into the street; she was not found to be at fault.