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Date of Birth

31 October 1879, Dublin, Ireland

Date of Death

13 September 1950, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)

Mini Biography

Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to he English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish mothers, landladies, neighborhood gossips and the like, although she is best remembered for playing Mrs. Morgan, the mother of a family of Welsh miners, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her sister Maire O'Neill was an actress in Ireland, and famed Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a family friend. Sara Allgood died of a heart attack shortly after making her last film, Sierra (1950).

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Spouse

Gerald Henson

(1916 - 1918) (his death) 1 child

Trivia

She became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

Sister of Irish actress Maire O'Neill.

Daughter died of influenza in 1917.

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