---
name: "Irene Browne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/irene-browne"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 February 1891"
died: "24 July 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:53:38.674408+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."
---

# Irene Browne

Actor. Born 23 February 1891 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. Died 24 July 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 February 1891, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- **Died:** 24 July 1965
- **Active:** 1933–1948
- **Also known as:**  Irene Brown
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 57 (1), 1940s 92 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Browne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946000, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115008/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144361

## Biography

Irene Browne (also credited as Irene Brown) was an English stage and film actress. She was born on 23 February 1891 in Hendon, London, and died on 24 July 1965 in London.

She began her theatrical career in 1910 and appeared in the West End production of *No, No, Nanette* (1925). She played in Noël Coward's stage production of *Cavalcade* (1931) and reprised her role as Margaret Harris in the 1933 film adaptation. Browne was associated with several of Coward's works on stage.

Her film credits include the Duchess in *Pygmalion* (1938), Lady Neston in *The Red Shoes* (1948) and the Dowager in *The Wrong Arm of the Law* (1963).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Red Shoes* (1948), Fi1m 92, as Lady Neston — [page](https://film.one/film/the-red-shoes.md)
- *Cavalcade* (1933), Fi1m 57, as Margaret Harris — [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *The Wrong Arm of the Law* (1963), as Dowager
- *Serious Charge* (1959), as Mrs Phillips
- *Rooney* (1958), as Mrs Manning ffrench
- *Barnacle Bill* (1957), as Mrs. Barrington
- *The House in the Square* (1951), as Lady Anne Pettigrew
- *Madeleine* (1950), as Mrs. Grant
- *Trottie True* (1949), as Duchess (uncredited)
- *The Bad Lord Byron* (1949), as Lady Melbourne
- *Quartet* (1948), as Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
- *The Red Shoes* (1948), as Lady Neston — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-red-shoes.md)
- *Meet Me at Dawn* (1947), as Mme. Renault
- *The Prime Minister* (1941), as Lady Londonderry
- *Pygmalion* (1938), as Duchess
- *The Amateur Gentleman* (1936), as Lady Huntstanton
- *My Lips Betray* (1933), as Queen Mother Therese
- *Berkeley Square* (1933), as Lady Ann Pettigrew
- *Peg o' My Heart* (1933), as Mrs. Chichester
- *Christopher Strong* (1933), as Carrie Valentine
- *Cavalcade* (1933), as Margaret Harris — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)
- *The White Woman* (1931), as Mrs. Joyce
- *The Letter* (1929), as Mrs. Joyce

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