Ursula Agnes Booth (1740–1803) was a British stage actress of the eighteenth century. She first appeared at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 1 November 1775, but at the season switched to the rival Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and remained a part of the company for the next twenty years under the management of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.[1] She specialised in character roles of older woman. She also appeared in the summers at the Haymarket.[2] Her husband John Booth was the resident tailor at Drury Lane.[3] She was the mother of the actress Elizabeth Field who married the actor William Wallack and was therefore the grandmother of James William Wallack and Henry John Wallack.[4][5]
Selected roles
- Mrs Goodison in The Jew by Richard Cumberland (1794)
- Mrs Rigid in The Will by Frederick Reynolds (1797)
References
Bibliography
- Bratton, Jacqueline S. New Readings in Theatre History. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800, Volumes 1-2. SIU Press, 1973.
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