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[[Inez Bensusan]] (fl 1890s/1900s) was a British actress.

==Biography==

==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

She played "Lavender" in the [[Searelle Comedy Company]]'s production of ''[[Sweet Lavender]]'' (Pinero), which toured the major South African cities in 1896.

== Sources ==

[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 404

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 She also established a Women's Theatre Company at the Coronet Theatre in 1913. The company would go on to entertain the troops during the ensuing war.
-She wrote a number of plays, including ''[[The Apple]]''  (1909), ''[[Perfect Ladies]]'' (1909), ''[[Nobody's Sweetheart]]'' (1911), ''[[The Prodigal Passes]]'' (1914), ''[[The Singer of the Veldt]]'' and ''[[True Womanhood]]'' (a film, 1911).
+Besides her theatrical work, she soon became involved in the feminist movement, ''inter alia'' as a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union and one of the founder members of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
 Film work included roles in ''The Grit of a Jew'' (1917) and ''Adam Bede'' (1918).
 She died in 1967.

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 ==Biography==
-Born in Sydney, Australia, of a Jewish family,  in the UK. She became a leader of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
+Born in Sydney, Australia, of a Jewish family,  later studying at University of Sydney before she and her family moved to England in 1894. There she joined an theatre company and went on to perform in plays around the world (e.g. England, South Africa, the USA and Australia), and appear in more than fifty plays in the West End between 1906 until 1938.
 She wrote a number of plays, including ''[[The Apple]]''  (1909), ''[[Perfect Ladies]]'' (1909), ''[[Nobody's Sweetheart]]'' (1911), ''[[The Prodigal Passes]]'' (1914), ''[[The Singer of the Veldt]]'' and ''[[True Womanhood]]'' (a film, 1911).
-Died in Australia in 1967.
+Film work included roles in ''The Grit of a Jew'' (1917) and ''Adam Bede'' (1918).
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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 Born in Sydney, Australia, of a Jewish family,  in the UK. She became a leader of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.
 Died in Australia in 1967.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-She played "Lavender" in the [[Searelle Comedy Company]]'s production of ''[[Sweet Lavender]]'' (Pinero), which toured the major South African cities in 1896.
+She visited South Africa in 1896 with the [[Searelle Comedy Company]] on a tour the major South African cities, for example playing "Lavender" in their production of ''[[Sweet Lavender]]'' (Pinero).
 == Sources ==

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-[[Inez Bensusan]] (fl 1890s/1900s) was a British actress.
+[[Inez Bensusan]] (1871–1967) was an actress, playwright and suffragette
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 == Sources ==
 [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)