Violet Wilkey(1903-1976)
- Actress
Born on January 10, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, to an English
father and an American mother, Violet Wilkey made her screen debut at the age
of 12 in the D.W. Griffith screen epic _Birth of a Nation, The_, playing a young 'Mae Marsh'.
She then appeared in The Children Pay (1916), but left the film world forever after
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) to retire to private life. Her film career lasted only two
short years. She died on June 5, 1976 in North Hollywood, California,
USA at the age of 73.
