Emmy Lynn

French actress

Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French actress.^[1]

Lynn was born Emily Leigh in Barcelona to an English father who worked at the British Consulate and a half-Spanish and half-German mother. She arrived in Paris at the age of one.^[2] She was first married to actor Henry Roussel, then to Charles Peignot, and to theatre critic, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Gautier.

Selected filmography

The Cameo (1913)
The Torture of Silence (1917)
The Tenth Symphony (1918)
The Kiddies in the Ruins (1918)
Le Vertige (1927)
A Foolish Maiden (1929)
The Two Orphans (1933)
Le Lit à colonnes (1942)

References

^ BFI.org
^ Francis, Ève (1966). "Interviews avec Emmy Lynn" (PDF). Fonds Commission de Recherche Historique. Référence : CRH79-B4. Cinémathèque française (in French). Retrieved 6 April 2019.