About Ursula Booth
Lived 1740 – 1803 (aged 62–63). Ursula Booth was a stage actor and actor.
Ursula Agnes Booth (1740–1803) was a British stage actress of the eighteenth century. She first appeared at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 1 November 1775, but at the season switched to the rival Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and remained a part of the company for the next twenty years under the management of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She specialised in character roles of older woman. She also appeared in the summers at the Haymarket. Her husband John Booth was the resident tailor at Drury Lane. She was the mother of the actress Elizabeth Field who married the actor William Wallack and was therefore the grandmother of James William Wallack and Henry John Wallack.
Selected roles Mrs Goodison in The Jew by Richard Cumberland (1794) Mrs Rigid in The Will by Frederick Reynolds (1797)
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Who was Ursula Booth?
British stage actress
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Ursula Booth was born in 1740.
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Ursula Booth died in 1803.
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Ursula Booth was a stage actor and actor.
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