Edna Foster

Edna Foster was an American child actress who was active during the silent film era.

Biography Edna Foster was born in Boston in 1900 to Anne Louise Ramsell Foster and Conrad Houteling Foster. Conrad Foster was a theater owner and eventual mayor of Traverse City, Michigan. He had been in the entertainment business since 1889 and assistant treasurer for Ringling Brothers circus for 14 years.

Entertainment career Foster acted in films for the Biograph Company. She played both boys and girls in film. She received critical attention for her work "as one of the best known boy impersonators" in film. She was sometimes professionally known as "Billy Foster;" she selected the name herself.

Edna Foster's older sister Flora Foster, also an actress, died of heart failure as a teenager.

Foster's favorite stage actress was Blanche Sweet. She and her sister both enjoyed working with D.W. Griffith and Harry Carey. She enjoyed sewing, ragtime music, baseball, rugby, and dancing; her sister stated that Foster had aspirations for a career in ballet. In 1922, she was working as assistant treasurer for Minksy's Burlesque.

She had grey eyes. When she was fourteen, she had blonde hair she wore bobbed.

According to her father's obituary, Edna Foster was living in New York City in 1940.

Selected filmography Men and Women (1914) The Escape (1914) A Nest Unfeathered (1914) The Little Tease (1913) A Misappropriated Turkey (1913) With the Enemy's Help (1912) A String of Pearls (1912) The School Teacher and the Waif (1912) The Sunbeam (1912) The Transformation of Mike (1912) For His Son (1912) The Battle (1911) The Adventures of Billy (1911) A Country Cupid (1911) The Lonedale Operator (1911)