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name: "Estelle Hemsley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/estelle-hemsley"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 May 1887"
died: "5 November 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:14:21.349271+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Estelle Hemsley

Actor. Born 4 May 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Died 5 November 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 May 1887, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 5 November 1968
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Hemsley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372545/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151137

## Biography

Estelle Hemsley (1887–1968) was an American actress who worked in theatre and film. She began her career on stage in the 1930s, appearing in Broadway productions including *Conjur Man Dies* (1936), *The Case of Philip Lawrence* (1937), *Tobacco Road* (1950 revival) and *Take a Giant Step* (1953).

Her film roles include Mrs. Price in *Edge of the City* (1957), Gram Martin in *Take a Giant Step* (1959), Old Malla in *The Leech Woman* (1960), Grandmother Topouzoglou in *America America* (1963) and Catherine in *Baby the Rain Must Fall* (1965). She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for *Take a Giant Step*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *America America* (1963), Fi1m 84, as Grandmother Topouzoglou — [page](https://film.one/film/america-america.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Baby the Rain Must Fall* (1965), as Catherine
- *America America* (1963), as Grandmother Topouzoglou — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/america-america.md)
- *The Leech Woman* (1960), as Old Malla
- *Take a Giant Step* (1959), as Grandmother Martin
- *Green Mansions* (1959), as Cla-Cla
- *Edge of the City* (1957), as Mrs. Price
- *Return of Mandy's Husband* (1947), as Mandy

## Gallery

- ![Estelle Hemsley](https://film.one/media/person/1241365/gallery-959d17d91b95.jpg) Estelle Hemsley — Federal Theatre Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Estelle_Hemsley_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Estelle Hemsley](https://film.one/media/person/1241365/gallery-60f887aefed7.jpg) Estelle Hemsley — Image via TMDB

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