IMDb > Poppy Wyndham > Biography
Date of Birth
1891, Simla, India

Date of Death
14 March 1928, at sea (air crash)

Birth Name
Hon. Elsie Mackay

Spouse
Lionel Atwill (1920 - 1928) (divorced)
Dennis Wyndham (? - 1922) (separated)

Trivia

She was married to British actor Lionel Atwill in 1920. They played opposite each other in the play "Another Man's Shoes" (1918) and played together in "Deburau" (1920) as well. At the time she went by the name of Elsie Mackay. Poppy's affair with another man led to scandal in 1924, and her career ended in ruins.

Born Elsie Mackay, she is one and the same pioneer aviatrix Elsie Mackay who vanished in 1928 while attempting to cross the Atlantic. Elsie MacKay was the first British woman to be issued with a pilot's license.


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