Biography

Whalley was the daughter of Henry Octavius Whalley, a doctor working in Australia.

During the late 1890s she toured South Africa, meeting Paul Kruger

Paul Kruger

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger , better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic...

, president of the Transvaal Republic

South African Republic

The South African Republic , often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer-ruled country in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. Not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa, it occupied the area later known as the South African...

 soon after the Jameson Raid

Jameson Raid

The Jameson Raid was a botched raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic carried out by a British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 1895–96...

.

In 1901 she was married to J. Sherrie Matthews, an American vaudeville performer, who since mid-1900 had been prevented from working due to ill health, and by 1902 was permanently disabled after a stroke of paralysis. In 1904 she divorced Matthews to marry Percival Clarke (later Sir Percival), son of Sir Edward George Clarke

Edward George Clarke

Sir Edward George Clarke QC QC was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892...

.

Theatre

Whalley was brought to the United States for a production by George Edwardes

George Edwardes

George Joseph Edwardes was an English theatre manager of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond....

.

She worked in the Chicago and New York for several years from the late 1890s. Whalley appeared in the Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 production of the Man in the Moon between April and November 1899.

Selected filmography

• Colonel Newcome
  Colonel Newcome (film)
  Colonel Newcome is a 1920 British silent historical drama film directed by Fred Goodwins and starring Milton Rosmer, Joyce Carey and Temple Bell. It was based on the novel The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray.-Cast:* Milton Rosmer - B...
  
  (1920)
• Greatheart
  Greatheart (film)
  Greatheart is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Cecil Humphreys, Madge Stuart and Ernest Benham. It was based on the 1912 novel Greatheart by Ethel M...
  
  (1921)
• The Pointing Finger
  The Pointing Finger (1922 film)
  The Pointing Finger is a 1922 British thriller film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Madge Stuart and Joseph Tozer. It was an adaptation of the novel Rita by Paul Rooff...
  
  (1922)
• The Pauper Millionaire (1922)
• The Crimson Circle
  The Crimson Circle (1922 film)
  The Crimson Circle is a 1922 British silent crime film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Clifton Boyne, Fred Groves and Robert English. It was an adaptation of the novel The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace...
  
  (1922)
• A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
• The Experiment
  The Experiment (1922 film)
  The Experiment is a 1922 silent British drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is considered to be lost.- Cast :* Evelyn Brent as Doris Fielding* Clive Brook as Vivian Caryll* Templar Powell as Maj. Maurice Brandon...
  
  (1922)
• Sliver Blaze (1923)
• The Virgin Queen
  The Virgin Queen (1923 film)
  The Virgin Queen is a British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson.-Production background:...
  
  (1923)
• The Luck of the Navy
  The Luck of the Navy (film)
  The Luck of the Navy is a 1927 British silent comedy thriller film directed by Fred Paul and starring Evelyn Laye, Henry Victor and Hayford Hobbs...
  
  (1927)
• The Camels Are Coming
  The Camels are Coming (film)
  The Camels are Coming is a 1934 British comedy adventure film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Jack Hulbert, Anna Lee, Hartley Power and Harold Huth...
  
  (1934)

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