ELLIOTT, GERTRUDE

(1874-1950)

Born May Gertrude Dermot in Rockland, Maine, Gertrude Elliott made her acting debut in 1894. With her elder sisterMaxine Elliott, she appeared inAn American Citizen(1897),Nathan Hale(1899), andThe Cowboy and the Lady(1899). After touring to London with the latter production, she joined the company of the English actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson to tour inHamletin 1900. She married Forbes-Robertson that year and thereafter lived in England. She and her husband made two American tours, 1903 and 1906. He retired in 1913, but she played several American engagements. Lady Forbes-Robertson died in Kent, England.