Sara Allgood(1880-1950)
- Actress
Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native
country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the
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).
Sara Allgood died of a heart attack shortly after making her last film, Sierra (1950).
