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Beatrice Stella Patrick Campbell Campbell

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CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865— ), English actress, was born in London, her maiden name being Tanner, and in 1884 married Captain Patrick Campbell. In 1893 she created the chief part in Pinero's Second Mrs. Tanqueray at the St. James's, her remarkable im personation at once putting her in the first rank of English ac tresses. She played with Mr. (Sir Johnston) Forbes Robertson (q.v.) in Davidson's For the Crown, and in Macbeth. Other great parts of hers were in Magda and in Shaw's Pygmalion.

In 1922 Mrs. Patrick Campbell published an autobiography, My Life and Some Letters.