Isabel Jeans
Actress

Isabel Jeans Net Worth

Isabel Jeans was a British actress born in London in 1891. She began her career on the stage at the age of fifteen, and went on to appear in two early films by Alfred Hitchcock. She was married and divorced from actor Claude Rains, and later married a prominent English barrister. Despite her dignified appearance, she enjoyed playing poker, driving fast cars, and going to the race track. She was often cast in dignified socialite or upper class roles, such as Mrs. Newsham in Suspicion (1941). After a ten year absence from the screen, she returned to play Aunt Alicia in Gigi (1958) and Lady Despard in Heavens Above! (1963).
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day September 16, 1891
Birth Place  London, England, United Kingdom
Age 128 YEARS OLD
Died On 4 September 1985(1985-09-04) (aged 93)\nLondon, England, UK
Birth Sign Libra
Years active 1917–1972
Spouse(s) Gilbert Wakefield (1920–1963) his death Claude Rains (1913–1915) (divorced)

💰 Net worth: $800,000 (2024)

Isabel Jeans, a renowned actress from the United Kingdom, is reported to have a net worth of approximately $800,000 in the year 2024. Known for her exceptional talent and widespread acclaim, Jeans has managed to establish herself as a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. With a successful career spanning several decades, her wealth is a testament to her hard work and dedication. As an accomplished actress, she has undoubtedly made significant contributions to the world of cinema and is deserving of the recognition and financial success she has garnered.

Biography/Timeline

1908

She planned to become a singer but began her career on the London stage in 1908 at age 15, at the invitation of Herbert Beerbohm Tree. An early Broadway appearance was in The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife in January 1915 and as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream in February 1915. She played Lady Mercia Merivale in the London musical hit Kissing Time (1919). She appeared in a production of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan at His Majesty's Theatre in London in 1923. Incidental music for the play was by Frederick Delius, and the ballet in the House-of-the-Moving Walls was created by Fokine. In 1924, she appeared in Ivor Novello's play The Rat at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London. The following year, she was in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, The Rivals at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, together with Claude Rains, his ex-wife Marie Hemingway, and his then-current wife, Beatrix Thomson.

1913

She was married twice: first to the actor Claude Rains, from 1913 to 1918; and then to the barrister and Playwright Gilbert Edward "Gilley" Wakefield, from 1920 until his death in 1963. She enjoyed horse racing and poker.

1927

She appeared in major roles in two Alfred Hitchcock silent films, Downhill (1927) and Easy Virtue (1928) and various other British films, before playing a number of grande dames in Hollywood films starting in 1937, such as Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), as well as in such films as Banana Ridge (1942), Gigi (1958) and A Breath of Scandal (1960).

1936

Later stage roles included a revival of The Happy Hypocrite in London in 1936. Later Broadway roles were Crystal Wetherby in The Man in Possession in 1930 and Mrs. Emmeline Lucas in Make Way for Lucia in 1948. English productions included Anton Chekhov's plays, The Seagull, (1949 at the Lyric Theatre, London and then St. James's Theatre), Jean Anouilh's play, "Ardele" (1951 at the Vaudeville Theatre), Noël Coward's play, The Vortex (1952 at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith), T.S. Eliot's play, The Confidential Clerk (1953 at the Lyric Theatre), and william Congreve's play, The Double Dealer (1959 at the Old Vic Theatre, and other plays there that season, with Judi Dench). She also acted in West End productions of plays by Oscar Wilde, including Lady Windermere's Fan (1945 at the Haymarket Theatre, directed by Sir John Gielgud; and 1966 at the Phoenix Theatre (London)), A Woman of No Importance (1953 at the Savoy Theatre) and as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1968 at the Haymarket Theatre).

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