Thomas L. Moxley

Thomas L. Moxley (c. 1828, Baltimore – 7 July 1890, Baltimore)

Career Moxley formed a close partnership with the minstrel-show impresario, actor, and theater manager George Kunkel. They performed together for years. Moxley was a leading member of Kunkel's Nightingales, one of the most popular minstrel shows of the 1850s and 1860s, and toured widely with the troupe during this period. and the Richmond Theatre (then known as the Marshall Theatre) in Virginia. John Wilkes Booth and his brother Edwin Booth both performed at the Richmond Theatre in Shakespearean performances while Moxley was there.

When Kunkel adapted Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin for the stage in 1861, Moxley portrayed the role of Topsy, a female slave. In his obituary, he was credited as the first actor to perform the role of Topsy in the theatre.

Death Moxley died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland, on 7 July 1890 at the age of 62.