Unė Babickaitė-Graičiūnienė (born Uršulė Babickaitė also known as Une Baye; 19 April 1897 – 1 August 1961)[1] was a Lithuanian actress and theater director.
[4] With her husband financing her artistic endeavors,[6] she established the New Russian Theatre, and later the Anglo-American Company Troupe, appeared in theaters in both London and Paris.
[4] After World War II, following the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, her husband, an American citizen, was arrested in 1951 and sentenced to ten years in Gulag.
Babickaitė left an extensive collection of documents, correspondence, and photos, which are preserved by the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
[6] Various theater exhibits, collected by her, are displayed by the Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Film Museum, established by Balys Sruoga and Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius in 1926.
[7] The family home in Laukminiškės [lt] village, where Babickaitė and her brother writer Petras Babickas were born, was turned into an ethnographic and memorial museum in 2002.