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. She specialised in
character roles of older woman. She also appeared in the summers at the
Haymarket Haymarket may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia
Germany
* Heumarkt (KVB), transport interchange in Cologne on the site of the Heumarkt (literally: hay market)
Russia
* Sennaya Square (''Hay Squ ...
. Her husband John Booth was the resident tailor at Drury Lane. 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
Henry John Wallack (1790 – 30 August 1870) was a British actor, stage manager, and brother of actor James William Wallack.
Wallack was born in London. Wallack's parents were comedians, who performed at the London minor playhouses and in the B ...
.
[Bratton p.189]
Selected roles
* Mrs Goodison in ''
The Jew
''The Jew'' is a comedy written by playwright Richard Cumberland and first presented at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in May 1794. The play is notable as the first play in the English theatre to portray a Jewish moneylender as the hero of a ...
'' by
Richard Cumberland Richard Cumberland may refer to:
* Richard Cumberland (philosopher) (1631–1718), bishop, philosopher
* Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (1732–1811), civil servant, dramatist
* Richard Cumberland (priest) (1710–1737), Archdeacon of Northa ...
(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.
British stage actresses
18th-century British actresses
1740 births
1803 deaths
English stage actresses
18th-century English actresses
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