

Acting
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on...
Highest rated appearances
The Happiest Millionaire
as Aunt Mary

Madame Bovary
as Madame Dupuis

The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock

The Pirate
as Aunt Inez

Homecoming
as Mrs. Kirby

The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Hamilton

Green Dolphin Street
as Sophie Patourel

The Cockeyed Miracle
as Amy Griggs

Beware of Pity
as Mrs. Klara Condor

The Green Years
as Grandma Leckie

Love Letters
as Beatrice Remington

The Valley of Decision
as Clarissa Scott

Mrs. Parkington
as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt

The White Cliffs of Dover
as Jean Ashwood

The Song of Bernadette
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

Princess O'Rourke
as Miss Haskell

Mr. Lucky
as Veronica Steadman

Forever and a Day
as Mrs. Barringer

Now, Voyager
as Mrs. Henry Vale

Eagle Squadron
as Aunt Emmeline

This Above All
as Iris Cathaway

The Gay Falcon
as Maxine Wood

The Black Cat
as Myrna Hartley

That Hamilton Woman
as Lady Francis Nelson

Kitty Foyle
as Mrs. Strafford

Rebecca
as Beatrice Lacy