Silent -screen actress and screenwriter, with Kalem from 1906. Her actual name was Eugenia Gauntier Liggett. In 1912 she left Kalem to form the Gene Gauntier Feature Players Company in conjunction with her former mentor, director
Sidney Olcott. She retired from films in 1920. An interesting footnote to her career is, that as a producer for Biograph in 1907, she gave the first directing assignment to an actor they then called "Larry" who would become legendary silent-film producer-director
D.W. Griffith.