Louie Freear
Louisa Freear (26 November 1871 – 23 March 1939) was an English actress and comedienne. Biography

She was born in Lambeth, London, and was part of the Freear theatrical family; her parents were actor Henry Butler Freear and Mary Jane Freear ( Burke), a vocalist. Her brother Walter Freear was an actor, dancer and comedian, and brother Alfred worked as a musician. Described as "vital and diminutive", she performed the role Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey (1894) and Puck in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's lavish 1900 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was also a success in George Dance's comic opera, A Chinese Honeymoon, in 1901. In 1912, she married Charles Shepherd. She died at her home London on 23 March 1939, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery. References

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Images at National Portrait Gallery
Louie Freear in Press and Literature

1939 deaths
1871 births
20th-century English actresses
Burials at Brookwood Cemetery