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      • Marie Kathleen De Becker (13 June 1880 – 23 March 1946) was an English-American stage and screen actress.


      Family


      She was born in Islington, London, the daughter of Benevenuto Nicola de Becker, a shipping clerk, and his wife Catherine (or Kate) Elizabeth de Becker (née Kerin). Two of her siblings were also actors: her sister Ernestine, known as Nesta (mother of actress Ernestine Barrier) and her brother Harold.


      Career


      Marie De Becker was best known for playing mature character parts, notably in the 1940s films Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest and Devotion.
      De Becker's first stage acting roles were when her family were living in Camberwell, South London. At the age of 19, she played "Joyce" in the 1899 production by J. Pitt Hardacre's Company of East Lynne at the Theatre Metropole in Camberwell, when her young brother Harold had a juvenile part as "Little Willie". In 1900 she played "Humpty Dumpty" (the Nurse) in several Provincial productions (in England and Scotland) of the stage adaptation of John Strange Winter's novel, Bootle's Baby, alongside her sister Nesta as "Mignon", the eponymous baby. In 1902 she appeared as "Jane" in Uncles and Aunts at Dover, Coventry and Cardiff.


      Filmography




      References




      External links


      Marie De Becker at IMDb
      Marie De Becker at the Internet Broadway Database

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