Nelly Moore

{{Short description|English actress (1844–1869)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Nelly Moore | image = Eleanora Nelly Moore actress by Samuel Alexander Walker in 1860s crop.jpg | caption = Eleanora (Nelly) Moore in 1860s | birth_name = | birth_date = 1844/5 | birth_place = | death_date = 12 January 1869 | death_place = London | other_names = | footnotes = }} '''Nelly Moore''' or '''Eleanora Moore''' (1844/45 – 12 January 1869) was a British actress who died young.

==Life== Moore died in London in 1869 aged 24 years old from typhoid fever. She first acted in Manchester and appeared in London at the [[St James's Theatre]] in the first showing of ''Cupid's Ladder'' by [[Leicester Buckingham]]. After that she returned to work under [[Alfred Wigan]] as ''Margaret Lovell'' in [[Tom Taylor]]'s ''Up at the Hills''. In a short life Moore appeared in the first showing of several notable performances at the [[Haymarket Theatre]], the Queen's and the Princesses. One of her performances moved [[Henry Sambrooke Leigh]] to write a verse in her honour. She came from an acting family.<ref>Joseph Knight, 'Moore, Eleanora (1844/5–1869)’, rev. J. Gilliland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19106, accessed 8 Feb 2015]</ref> Her biography was included in the [[Dictionary of National Biography]].<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Moore, Eleanora}}</ref>

It was said that [[Henry Irving]] who had been a colleague of Moore's died carrying a photograph of Nelly that he had pasted back to back with his own. This caused some speculation but later research identifies the woman in Irving's photograph as Ethel Western aka [[Zaré Thalberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theirvingsociety.org.uk/the-thalbery-mystery-by-alex-bisset/|title=The Thalbery Mystery by Alex Bisset|date=2002-06-01|publisher=The Irving Society|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-08|archive-date=5 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605164317/https://www.theirvingsociety.org.uk/the-thalbery-mystery-by-alex-bisset/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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