Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she...

Known For

Rebecca

as Beatrice Lacy

My Fair Lady

as Mrs. Higgins

The Bishop's Wife

as Mrs. Hamilton

Cast Credits

The Switch

as Grand Duchess Ozerov

The Happiest Millionaire

as Aunt Mary Drexel

My Fair Lady

as Mrs. Higgins

Pygmalion

as Mrs. Higgins

Separate Tables

as Mrs. Railton-Bell

Circle of the Day

as Mrs. Millet

At Sword's Point

as Queen Anne

Thunder on the Hill

as Mother Superior

Madame Bovary

as Madame Dupuis

The Secret Garden

as Mrs. Medlock

The Pirate

as Aunt Inez

Homecoming

as Mrs. Kirby

The Bishop's Wife

as Mrs. Hamilton

Green Dolphin Street

as Sophie Patourel

Beware of Pity

as Mrs. Klara Condor

The Green Years

as Grandma Leckie

Love Letters

as Beatrice Remington

The Valley of Decision

as Clarissa Scott

Mrs. Parkington

as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt

The Song of Bernadette

as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

Princess O'Rourke

as Miss Haskell

Mr. Lucky

as Captain Veronica Steadman

Forever and a Day

as Mrs. Barringer