{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Peggy O'Dare | image = Peggy O'Dare 1920 extracted.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Peggy O'Dare {{circa}} 1920 | birth_name = Ella Aarup | birth_date = September 3, 1898 | birth_place = Staten Island, New York City, US | death_date = August 24, 1959 (aged 60) | death_place = | occupation = Film actress | spouse = Albert Pegg }} '''Peggy O'Dare''' (born '''Ella Aarup'''; September 3, 1898 – August 24, 1959) was an American actress active during Hollywood's silent era. She is often confused with fellow silent-era actress Peggy O'Day.
== Biography == O'Dare was born on Staten Island to Niels Aarup and Augusta Geshke, both of whom hailed from Denmark. She was one of the youngest of the couple's many children, most of whom were born back in Denmark.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/309915293/?terms=%22peggy+o%27dare%22|title=Screen Siftings|date=June 22, 1919|website=The Lincoln Sunday Star|language=English|access-date=May 7, 2019}}</ref> She graduated from San Pedro High School.<ref name="spnp" />
O'Dare had lead roles in films for the L-KO Kompany. Her films included ''In the Balance'', ''For Life'' and ''The Vanishing Dagger'' (a serial).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Charles Donald |last2=Silver |first2=Milton L. |title=Who's who on the Screen |date=1920 |publisher=Ross publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DAOAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Peggy+O%27Dare%22&pg=PA259 |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1920, O'Dare married oil engineer Albert O. Pegg in Bakersfield, California.<ref name="spnp">{{cite news |title=Ella Aarup and A. O. Pegg Married In Bakersfield. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56977928/peggy-odare/ |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=News-Pilot |date=March 24, 1920 |location=California, San Pedro |page=1|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. N. C. Aarup tells of wedding of Peggy O'Dare |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPDN19200324&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |accessdate=August 9, 2020 |work=San Pedro Daily News |date=March 24, 1920 |location=California, San Pedro}}</ref>
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