Fanny Furnival

Elizabeth "Fanny" Furnival or "Mrs Kemble" (fl. 1731–1752) was a British actress and singer who appeared in theatres in London and Dublin. She notably took the role of Hamlet in 1741. She lost a vendetta with George Anne Bellamy. She appeared as "Mrs Kemble" but Roger Kemble married another.

Life She first came to notice when she and her husband, Thomas Furnival, joined the company at the Haymarket Theatre, London for the season of 1730-31. She appeared as "Lady Grace" in The Provok'd Husband on 10 February 1731. She and her husband are not seen on London playbills until 1736 and it is thought that the two of them must have been touring outside London between 1731 and 1736.

She and her husband moved to Dublin in 1739 where they both found work. She and her husband appeared to have separated whilst she was appearing at Dublin's Aungier Street theatre. Thomas Furnival had a continuing career as an actor in London and died in 1773. whose daughter Kemble would eventually marry.