Nina Boucicault (27 February 1867 – 2 August 1950) was an English-born actress, daughter of the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault and his wife, actress Agnes Kelly Robertson.[1] She had three brothers, Dion William (1855–1876), Dion Boucicault Jr. and Aubrey Boucicault, and two sisters, Eva and Patrice.
Boucicault's debut was at the Louisville Opera House, and as a child she performed with her father.[2] Beginning in 1892, she played Kitty Verdun in the original production of the hit comedy Charley's Aunt.[3] She was the first to play the title role in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, beginning in 1904 at the Duke of York's Theatre.[4]
Boucicault retired from the stage in 1927, returning in 1935 and 1936 in Frolic Wind and Waste, respectively, while continuing her film career. She died at Hamilton Road, Ealing.[5] She was married three times: first to G. D. Pitman; then to E. H. Kelly; and finally to Donald Innes-Smith.[6]
^"Music and the Drama". The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts. 1 (13): 205. 28 February 1884. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^Law, Jonathan (16 December 2013). The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408131480.
^Hanson, Bruce K. (30 June 2011). Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904–2010 (2d ed.). McFarland. ISBN 9780786486199.
^Law, Cheryl. Women – A Modern Political Dictionary, Bloomsbury (2000), p. 31
^Parker, John. Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage, Pitman (1933), p. 282
NinaBoucicault (27 February 1867 – 2 August 1950) was an English-born actress, daughter of the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault and his wife, actress...
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault /ˈdaɪˌɒn ˈbuːsɪˌkoʊ/ (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed...
York's Theatre in London on 27 December 1904 with NinaBoucicault, daughter of the playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. A Broadway production was...
costume was a reddish tunic and dark green tights, such as that worn by NinaBoucicault in 1904. This costume is exhibited at Barrie's Birthplace. The similar...
performances from 14 December, this time with Lawrence Grossmith as Peter, NinaBoucicault as Harriet and 11-year-old Marie Lohr as "Child". In a revival at the...
cobwebs and leaves), nor the original 1904 London production starring NinaBoucicault (in a cape), had featured a similar design. Even though subsequent...
who married actress Irene Vanbrugh); Patrice Boucicault; NinaBoucicault (an actress); and Aubrey Boucicault (an actor and writer). "The stage Irishman"...
Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with NinaBoucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling;...
which he premiered at the Duke of York's in December 1904 starring NinaBoucicault, and produced in January 1905 in the U.S. starring Maude Adams. In...
included Hilda Trevelyan, Sydney Fairbrother, Lydia Bilbrooke and NinaBoucicault. After her success in Ruts at the Court, Hampton began a long series...
actors and playwrights, his father being Dion Boucicault. Aubrey Boucicault was born in London to Dion Boucicault and Agnes Robertson and was their sixth and...
of Peter Pan at the time, and he cast her as Wendy to the Peter of NinaBoucicault. Over the years she played the part nearly a thousand times. In Barrie's...
April – Edward Unwin, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1864) 2 August – NinaBoucicault, actress (born 1867) 17 August – Sir Francis Lindley, diplomat (born...
1931) 4 February – Alexander Godley, general (died 1957) 27 February – NinaBoucicault, actress (died 1950) 15 March – Lionel Johnson, poet (died 1902) 10...
production of J.M. Barrie's perennial favourite "Peter Pan" (with NinaBoucicault in the title role) at the Duke of York's Theatre. In 1905, whilst playing...
Eva Le Gallienne, Howard da Silva, Charles Walters, Richard Waring, NinaBoucicault, Arthur Lupino, Sydney Harcourt, Violet Kemble Cooper, Leslie Banks...
Elsie Ronald Adam as Barstow C. V. France as Col. Lionel Anstruther NinaBoucicault as Mrs. Anstruther Martita Hunt as Miss Pitter C. Denier Warren as...
Who Pretended to Be a Boy" in The Violet Fairy Book this year 1904 - NinaBoucicault begins the tradition of cross-dressing female to male roles for Peter...
(1904) opposite Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling and NinaBoucicault as Peter Pan; Jenkins in Castles in Spain at the Royalty Theatre (1906);...
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