Ivy Millais (25 December 1883 – 29 July 1969) was a British film and stage actress of the early 20th-century. She had a notable career in silent film.

She was born in Mile End in London in 1883 as Isabel Katherine Malenoir, the second of four children of Katharine and Samuel Richard Malenoir, a fish salesman. Her stage roles included: Stephanus in The Sign of the Cross (1903-04), and The Prince and the Beggar Maid (1908-09), both at the Grand Theatre, Southampton.

Ivy Millais

Millais appeared in various films in the silent era, including: Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist (1912); Mate in The Cloister and the Hearth (1913); Ethel Loder in The Recalling of John Grey (1915); Mary Ashford in The Bottle (1915) opposite Albert Chevalier as her husband; Sarah in Trelawney of the Wells (1916); Jane Peach in Comin' Thro' the Rye (1916), and Liza, The Grain of Sand in A Grain of Sand (1917) opposite Stewart Rome and Chrissie White. She was married to the surveyor Verney Charles Hannam Warren (1885-1963) from 1914 to his death.

Ivy Millais

Ivy Millais died in 1969 in Thames Ditton in Surrey.

Ivy Millais

References

External links

Ivy Millais Internet Movie Database

1883 births

1969 deaths

English child actresses

English silent film actresses

Actresses from London

20th-century English actresses