Carrie Moore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian actress, 1882-1956
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Place of Birth: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
About Carrie Moore
- Carrie Moore (31 July 1882 – 5 September 1956) was an Australian actress who achieved fame on the Australian and British stage.
- She was born Caroline Ellen Moore in Geelong, Victoria, on 31 July 1882, the third of the nine children of Robert William Moore, a labourer and Mary née Wyatt.She first appeared on stage in Geelong in local amateur productions.
- By late 1895, she had successfully auditioned for J.
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- Williamson and was appearing in the Christmas pantomime, Djin Djin, attracting positive reviews.
- After successfully understudying in 1897 and 1898, Moore performed for Williamson's "Royal Comic Opera Company" in a number of leading roles.
- In a highly publicized case she took Ernest Tyson to court alleging "breach of promise", in August 1901.
- The matter was settled out of court.
- In July 1903 she left Australia for England, where she appeared for producer George Edwardes.
- For five years she performed on the London stage and in provincial theatre, becoming "a much-paragraphed and much-photographed actress."In mid 1908 she returned to Australia, to perform the role of Sonia in The Merry Widow for Williamson, a role that brought her great acclaim.
- She married Englishman Percy Bigwood in September, the event attracting much press attention in part because of another action for "breach of promise", this time brought against Bigwood by a Miss Silva.
- The marriage also proved to be bigamous – on the couple's return to England it transpired Bigwood already had a wife and child, as a 1912 divorce action showed.
- On her return to England, she appeared in A Persian Princess (1909) and on stage for producer Robert Courtneidge.
- She made several return trips to perform in Australia, in 1912 and 1917. Moore was estranged from Bigwood by the time of his death from pneumonia in 1915.
- She married wealthy Sydney bookmaker John Wyatt in 1918 and retired from the stage.
- She obtained a divorce from Wyatt in 1932 and returned to a few supporting roles on stage, including Music in the Air and a Command Performance in London in 1938.
- In 1945 she appeared in her only film, a supporting role in Charles Chauvel's Sons of Matthew.
- She died in relative poverty and obscurity in Sydney, in 1956.
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