Louisa Freear (26 November 1871 – 23 March 1939) was an English actress and comedienne.
Biography
She was born in Lambeth, London, and was part of the Freear theatrical family; her parents were actor Henry Butler Freear and Mary Jane Freear ( Burke), a vocalist. Her brother Walter Freear was an actor, dancer and comedian, and brother Alfred worked as a musician.
Described as "vital and diminutive",Harold Scott, The Early Doors: Origins of the Music Hall, London, 1946, p. 210 she performed the role Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey (1894) and Puck in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's lavish 1900 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream."A Midsummer Night's Dream" The Times of London, 1/11/1900. She was also a success in George Dance's comic opera, A Chinese Honeymoon, in 1901.
In 1912, she married Charles Shepherd. She died at her home London on 23 March 1939, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery."Louie Freear as Reggie in The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Manchester, Christmas 1898", Footlight Notes, 10 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2021
References
External links
Images at National Portrait Gallery Louie Freear in Press and Literature