Emmy Lynn

Emmy Lynn

Known for

Acting

Born

August 1, 1889

Birthplace

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Died

June 1, 1978 (aged 88)

Biography

Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French actress. Lynn was born Emily Leigh in Barcelona to an English father who worked at the British Consulate and a half-Spanish and half-German mother. She arrived in Paris at the age of one. She was first married to actor Henry Roussel, then to Charles Peignot, and to theatre critic, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Gautier.

Best known work

The Two Orphans
The Two Orphans
1933
The Tenth Symphony
The Tenth Symphony
1918
Le Vertige
Le Vertige
1926
The Torture of Silence
The Torture of Silence
1917
The Four-Poster Bed
The Four-Poster Bed
1942
Illegitimate Child
Illegitimate Child
1930
Une idée folle
Une idée folle
1933
Ma femme... homme d'affaires
Ma femme... homme d'affaires
1932
Résurrection
Résurrection
1923
The Sheik's Wife
The Sheik's Wife
1922

Filmography

  1. 1942

    The Four-Poster Bed

    as Countess of Verrières

  2. 1933

  3. 1933

    The Two Orphans

    as Countess of Lignères

  4. 1932

  5. 1930

    Illegitimate Child

    as Liane Orland

  6. 1929

  7. 1926

    Le Vertige

    as Natacha Svirsky - une émigrée russe qui croit reconnaître son amant mort à Nice

  8. 1923

  9. 1922

  10. 1918

    The Tenth Symphony

    as Eve Dinant

  11. 1917

  12. 1917

    The Torture of Silence

    as Manon Berliac

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