Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lillian Walker was a 22-year-old showgirl
appearing in "The Follies of 1910" on Broadway, when Vitagraph Studios
head
J. Stuart Blackton saw a picture
of her and snapped her up for a role in
The Inherited Taint (1911).
She developed into one of Vitagraph's top stars, extremely popular with
moviegoers, and earned the nickname "Dimples". She left Vitagraph in
1917 and had a long career as a character actress, making her last film
in 1934.
She died on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1975, age 88.