Cleo Madison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cleo Madison

actress and film director

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1883

Place of Birth: Bloomington, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1964

Profession: actor, stage actor, film director, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Cleo Madison (March 26, 1883 – March 11, 1964) was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who worked heavily in early Hollywood in a career spanning from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. Madison began her career on the stage.
By 1910, she had begun performing as part of a theatre troupe known as the Santa Barbara Stock Company in California.
In 1913, she was contracted by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company to begin appearing in feature films.
Madison established a name for herself as an actress with performances in films such as The Trey o' Hearts (1914).
She is also considered a pioneering female director with a number of shorts and two feature films, A Soul Enslaved (1916) and Her Bitter Cup (1916), to her credit. She made several efforts to set up a production company before leaving show business in 1924.
She died from a heart-attack in 1964 at the age of 80.