Theda Bara
Birthday
1885/07/28
Day of death
1955/04/07 (69 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also know as
Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet
Biography
From Wikipedia Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost because the 1937 Fox vault fire destroyed most of her films. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, s...Read more
Acting
(1919) Kathleen Mavourneen
as Kathleen Mavourneen
(1919) La belle Russe
as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
(1915) The Two Orphans
as Henriette
(1915) The Devil's Daughter
as La Gioconda
(1916) Gold and the Woman
as Juliet DeCordova
(1915) Lady Audley's Secret
as Helen Talboys
(1915) The Clemenceau Case
as Iza
(1916) Her Double Life
as Mary Doone
(1917) The Tiger Woman
as Princess Petrovitch
(1917) Her Greatest Love
as Vera Herbert
(1919) Lure of Ambition
as Olga Dolan
(1919) The Light
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
(1917) Camille
as Marguerite Gautier
(1917) Heart and Soul
as Jess
(1918) The Forbidden Path
as Mary Lynde
(1915) A Fool There Was
as The Vampire
(1917) Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
(1926) 45 Minutes from Hollywood
as Herself
(1918) Salome
as Salome
(1931) Stars of Yesterday
as Self
(1925) The Unchastened Woman
as Caroline Knollys
(1916) East Lynne
as Lady Isabel Carlisle
(1916) Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet
(2011) Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
(1917) The Darling of Paris
as Esmeralda
(1916) The Eternal Sapho
as Laura Bruffins
(1918) The She Devil
as Lolette
(1919) A Woman There Was
as Princess Zara
(1916) The Vixen
as Elsie Drummond
(1926) Madame Mystery
as Madame Mysterieux
(1915) Carmen
as Carmen
(1919) The Siren's Song
as Marie Bernais
(1919) When Men Desire
as Marie Lohr
(1933) The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1918) When a Woman Sins
as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
(1917) The Rose Of Blood
as Lisza Tapenka
(1918) Under the Yoke
as Maria Valverda
(1917) Madame du Barry
as Madame du Barry
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1915) Destruction
as Ferdinande Martin
(1916) Under Two Flags
as Cigarette
(1939) The Movies March On
as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
(1914) The Stain
as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
(1915) Sin
as Rosa
(1918) The Soul of Buddha
as Bava
(2006) The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
as Archival Footage
(1916) The Serpent
as Vania Lazar
(1915) The Galley Slave
as Francesca Brabaut
(1915) Kreutzer Sonata
as Celia Friedlander