Ena Bertoldi(1876-1906)

Ena Bertoldi born Beatrice Mary Claxton in Sheffield, England in 1876 from a family of acrobats, she began working in music hall theatre's from childhood from 1884, later she toured Europe and America throughout the late 1880's and 1890's, she became highly famous as a contortionist in the US and featured in a couple of very early short films 'Bertoldi Mouth Support' and 'Bertoldi Table Contortion' made by the Edison Kinetoscope, filming at the Black Maria studio in West Orange in 1894. She died from alcoholism at the age of only 30 years old in London, England.