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Full Name
  
Louisa Lane

Spouse
  
John Drew (m. 1848–1862)

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Louisa Drew

Occupation
  
Stage actress


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Born
  
January 10, 1820 (
1820-01-10
)
London, England

Died
  
August 31, 1897, Larchmont, New York, United States

Children
  
Georgiana Drew, John Drew, Jr., Sidney Drew

Parents
  
Eliza Trentner, William Haycraft Lane

Grandchildren
  
Lionel Barry, John Barry, Ethel Barry, S. Rankin Drew

Similar People
  
Georgiana Drew, John Drew - Jr, John Drew, Maurice Barry, Ethel Barry

Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. Professionally she was often known as Mrs. John Drew.

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Life and career

Drew was born Louisa Lane in London, England, the daughter of Eliza Trentner (1796–1887), an actress, and either Thomas Frederick Lane (1796-1825), or William Haycraft Lane, an actor and stage manager.

Louisa and her mother came to America when she was six years old. She proved to be a child prodigy playing five different adult roles within one play at the age of eight in 1828. As a young woman and strolling player, her theatrical travels took her, her mother and half sisters as far away as Jamaica, by sailing ship, where one of her step fathers died. She returned to the United States in 1847 to support Junius Brutus Booth. She appeared in several plays with both him and his son, John Wilkes Booth.

She and her third husband John Drew were the parents of Louisa Drew (1852–1888), John Drew, Jr. and Georgie Drew (Barrymore). She had no known children from her first two marriages. The Drews owned the Arch Street Theatre, where they staged performances, and she managed the business. The Arch Street was a competitor theatre of the still standing Walnut Street Theatre. After her husband's death Mrs Drew adopted a baby boy and named him Sidney. She was the grandmother through Georgie of John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore. Her other grand children were Georgie Drew Mendum an actress (from her daughter Louisa and Charles Mendum) and Louise Drew (Mrs Jack Devereaux) also an actress( from her son John Drew Jr. and his wife Josephine) as well as S. Rankin Drew, Sidney's son with his wife Gladys Rankin. She is the great-great-grandmother of Drew Barrymore.

In May 1895 the aged Mrs Drew appeared in an all-star revival of Sheridan's The Rivals. In 1897 an ailing Louisa Drew spent her last summer at her annual Larchmont, New York retreat with her grandsons Lionel and John Barrymore.

Death

She died in Philadelphia on August 31, 1897 at the age of 77. The historic Arch Street Theatre was demolished in 1936.

References

Louisa Lane Drew Wikipedia


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