Early life and education
Huban was born in Gort, Loughrea, Ireland. She was the youngest of nine children of Michael Huban and Winifred Mullins Huban. She attended a convent school, and moved to the United States to be with her widowed mother and sisters by 1913.Career
Huban's first public performance was as a singer in the 1913 Irish Historic Pageant at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. Her New York stage credits included roles in the shows ''Lonesome-like'' (1915), ''The Grasshopper'' (1917), ''Old Friends'' (1917), ''On With the Dance'' (1917), ''Cheating Cheaters'' (1918), ''Crops and Croppers'' (1918), ''Dark Rosaleen'' (1919), ''Paddy the Next Best Thing'' (1920), '' Hindle Wakes'' (1922), King '' Henry IV, Part I'' (1926), ''Window Panes'' (1927), '' Mixed Marriage'' (1930), and '' Troilus and Cressida'' (1932). She was also seen in the silent film '' Find the Woman'' (1922). "She is lovely to behold, a person naturally eloquent and dramatic," wrote a '' New York Times'' reviewer in 1917. "She plays with a grateful simplicity and directness, and she has a certain eeriness that is fascinating." "Her voice is a fine mezzo-soprano with unusual range and power," noted the ''Personal life
Huban died in 1935, after six months of illness, at the age of 38, in New York City. Her grand-niece is the actress Susan Sullivan.References
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huban, Eileen 1890s births 1935 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Loughrea Irish stage actresses Irish film actresses Irish silent film actresses Irish emigrants to the United States