Her younger sister was actress Elinor Kershaw who later married Thomas Ince.

[citation needed] The daughter of Harry Kershaw,[2] she was born in St. Louis and graduated from Central High School and the Lindley School of Dramatic Art.

[3] Kershaw's Broadway credits include Yes or No (1917), The Unchastened Woman (1915), A Pair of White Gloves (1913), The Switchboard (1913), Snobs (1911), The Country Boy (1910), The Heights (1910), and Robert Burns (1905).

[4] Kershaw married actor Arthur Morrison, and the marriage ended in 1909.

[2] In 1923, Kershaw married David Sturgis in New Rochelle, New York.