Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

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/ref> 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. She was first married to actor

Henry Roussel Henry Roussel (; 1875–1946), also known as Henry Roussell, was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s. He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939. Selected ...

, 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 ''The Tenth Symphony'' () is a 1918 silent French drama film directed by Abel Gance. Plot Rich orphan Eve Dinant has fallen under the spell of the charming but evil Fred Rice. She becomes his mistress and he induces her to murder his sister. S ...

'' (1918) * '' The Kiddies in the Ruins'' (1918) * '' Le Vertige'' (1927) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1933) * ''

Le Lit à colonnes ''Le Lit à colonnes'' () is a French drama film from 1942, directed by Roland Tual, written by Charles Spaak, starring Fernand Ledoux and Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of Louise de Vilmorin. In Finland the film was distribute ...

'' (1942)

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* 1889 births 1978 deaths French stage actresses French film actresses French silent film actresses Actresses from Barcelona 20th-century French actresses Spanish emigrants to France {{france-film-actor-1880s-stub