Virginia Brissac
Actor, Film actor
1883 – 1979
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Who was Virginia Brissac?
Virginia Brissac, was an American West Coast stage actress who came out of retirement in her early 50s to begin what would turn out to be a twenty year career as a performer in cinema and television productions. She was known as an ingénue in her early theatrical years, in her latter career Brissac’s stern features often led her to play schoolteachers and other authority figures rôles. She is perhaps best remembered today as Jim Stark’s grandmother in the 1955 film, Rebel Without a Cause.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1883
San Jose - Also known as
- Virginia Alice Brisac
- Parents
- Spouses
- Eugene Mockbee
(1906/07 - 1912/05) - John Griffith Wray
(1915/06/29 - 1927/05)
- Eugene Mockbee
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 26, 1979
Santa Fe
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on July 23, 2013
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