Fania Marinoff

Born

1890-03-20

Died

1971-11-17

Birthplace

Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odesa, Ukraine]

Biography

From Wikipedia Fania Marinoff (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was an American actress. Born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she was the youngest of 13 siblings. She came to the United States as a young child with her elder brother Louis, whom she lived with until she joined a traveling play company around the age of fourteen. She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917. She died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey.