Marie Tempest

| image = Marie Tempest, stage actress (SAYRE 9234).jpg | caption = Tempest in 1915 | birth_name = Mary Susan Etherington | birth_date = 15 July 1864 | birth_place = London, UK | death_date = 15 October 1942 (aged 78) | death_place = London, UK | occupation = Actress and singer | spouse = * * }} }} Dame Mary Susan Etherington, (15 July 1864 – 15 October 1942), known professionally as Marie Tempest, was an English singer and actress.

Tempest became a famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere. She was, at times, her own theatre manager during a career spanning 55 years. She was also instrumental in the founding of the actors' union Equity in Britain. Provided by Wikipedia