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Born about 1892 in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee. Round about 1911 she had studied as an early student in the Academy of Dramatic Art (founded under the guidance of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1904).
 
Born about 1892 in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee. Round about 1911 she had studied as an early student in the Academy of Dramatic Art (founded under the guidance of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1904).
  
She married Reginald Eric Jennens Moore in December of 1920, with whom she had two children, Mary Valerie Moore and Gerald Holyoake Moore. She later(?) married the actor Frank S. Bromley-Challenor.
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She married Reginald Eric Jennens Moore in December of 1920, with whom she had two children, Mary Valerie Moore and Gerald Holyoake Moore. She later(?) married the actor [[Frank S. Bromley-Challenor]], brother of the actor-manager [[James Bromley-Challoner]].
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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Norah Sturdee (circa 1892-)[1] was a British actress

Biography

Born about 1892 in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee. Round about 1911 she had studied as an early student in the Academy of Dramatic Art (founded under the guidance of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1904).

She married Reginald Eric Jennens Moore in December of 1920, with whom she had two children, Mary Valerie Moore and Gerald Holyoake Moore. She later(?) married the actor Frank S. Bromley-Challenor, brother of the actor-manager James Bromley-Challoner.

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

In 1915 or 1916 the actress who toured South Africa with James Bromley-Challoner's theatrical company.

Sources

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sturdee-14

E-mail correspondence with Nick Jackson about Norah Sturdee and the South African tour (1 May 2020).

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 1932. (Reprinted in 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: pp.

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