Kemble, Maria Theresa

Kemble, Maria Theresa

▪ British actress
also called  Marie-Thérèse Kemble , née  de Camp 
born Jan. 17, 1774, Vienna, Austria
died Sept. 3, 1838, Chertsey, Surrey, Eng.

      English singer, dancer, and actress who married the actor and theatrical manager Charles Kemble.

      The daughter of a French family of musicians, Maria Theresa was taken to England as a small child. In 1786 she found an acting part at the Drury Lane Theatre. She continued to play a wide variety of minor parts, some of them singing. In 1806 she married Charles Kemble and appeared with him for years in supporting parts at the Covent Garden. Their two daughters also won fame; they were the author and actress Fanny Kemble and the opera and concert singer Adelaide Kemble.

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