Carrie Turner (actress)

Carrie Turner (1863 - October 12, 1897) was an American actress known for her stage performances in the 1880s and 1890s.[1]

Turner was born in Albany, New York, where she graduated from Albany High School.[2] She first came to the public's popular attention as a member of Daniel Frohman's company at the Madison Square Theatre on Broadway. While appearing in the successful Young Miss Winthrop it was revealed that she had married Albert J. His, a Swiss citizen. She retired from the stage for a time to move to Switzerland. After they divorced, His took their child back from the United States to Switzerland without approval, which caused a number of headlines.

Turner married John Mack in 1894,[3] to whom he was married at the time of her death at the Dansville sanitarium on October 12, 1897.[1] She is buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery, where her gravestone reads "She was a player, that taking her all in all we shall not look upon her like again."

Selected appearances

• Edmund Kean (1882) as Anna Danby at the Academy of Music (New York debut)[4]
• Young Miss Winthrop (1882) as Constance Winthrop
• Paul Kauver (1888) as Diane at the Standard Theatre
• Niobe (1891) as Niobe at the Bijou Theatre[4]

References

1. (13 October 1897). Actress Carrie Turner Dead, The New York Times
2. Reynolds, Culver. Albany Chronicles, p. 710 (1906)
3. (27 February 1894). Carrie Turner Married Again - The Actress's Second Husband a Sporting Man of Albany, The New York Times
4. (23 October 1897). Death of Carrie Turner, New York Dramatic Mirror, p. 17, col. 1.

External links

• Carrie Turner at Find a Grave