Daisy Bertha Mary "Margaret" Scudamore (13 October 1884 – 5 October 1958) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress who began in ingenue

Ingenue (stock character)

See also Disingenuous, which is not quite the antonym that it may seem!The ingénue is a stock character in literature, film, and a role type in the theatre; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. Ingenue may also refer to a new young actress or one typecast in...

roles.

Life and career

Scudamore was born in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

, the youngest of five children of Clara (née Linington) and William George Scudamore, a shipwright at HM Portsmouth, all residing at 7 Melbourne Place, Southsea. She left home aged 18 and found her way to the offices of theatrical agent Sir John Denton. Sir John, mistaking her for Mary the young daughter of a well known actor Frank Scudamore, gave her Scudie's address at Castelnau Mansions, Barnes. Daisy promptly presented herself as a long lost daughter, apparently unaware that he too thought his name (Frank Davis) lacked pedigree and had changed it to Fortunatus Augustine Davis Scudmore.

She married the actor Roy Redgrave

Roy Redgrave

Roy Redgrave was an English stage and silent film actor. Redgrave was the founder of the Redgrave acting family.-Early life:...

 in 1907 and their son Sir Michael Redgrave carved a distinguished cinema

Film

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 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 career. After her second marriage to Captain James P (Andy) Anderson, by whom she had a daughter Peg, she adopted the name of Margaret Scudamore and continued acting in character roles.

Her grandchildren Corin Redgrave

Corin Redgrave

Corin William Redgrave was an English actor and political activist.-Early life:Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...

, Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...

 and Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...

 and great-grandchildren Jemma Redgrave

Jemma Redgrave

Jemma Redgrave is a fourth-generation English actress of the Redgrave family.-Early life/family:Born in London as Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, she is the daughter of the late actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, the late Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was...

, Joely Richardson

Joely Richardson

Joely Kim Richardson is an English actress, most known recently for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck...

, Natasha Richardson

Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...

 and Carlo Nero

Carlo Nero

Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Nero is an English screenwriter and film director.- Biography :The son of actors Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave, his half-sisters are actress Joely Richardson and the late Tony-award-winning actress Natasha Richardson . He was a nephew of the late actors Corin and Lynn...

have successfully followed the family tradition into acting.