{{short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Percy Haswell | image = Percy Haswell 1.jpg | alt = | caption = Haswell, c. 1896 | birth_name = | birth_date = April 30, 1871 | birth_place = Austin, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1945|6|24|1871|4|30}} | death_place = Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. | other_names = *Miss Percy Haswell *Mrs. George Fawcett | occupation = Actress | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = George Fawcett (m. 1895-1939) | children = 1 }} '''Percy Haswell''' (April 30, 1871 – June 24, 1945), frequently billed as '''Miss Percy Haswell''' or ''' Mrs. George Fawcett''' to clarify her gender, was an American stage and film actress. Haswell was born in Austin, Texas, the daughter of George Tyler Haswell, a politician and businessman, and Caroline Dalton.<ref name="WhoTheatre">John Parker, ed., ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 3rd Ed., London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916, vol. 3, p. 293</ref> She was educated in Washington, D.C., and while still a child she first appeared on the stage in March 1885.<ref name="WhoTheatre" /> She appeared with the Lafayette Square Theatre in Washington and acted in New York City at Augustin Daly's Theatre. Her stage career also included appearances in Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Toronto and other locales, as well as New York, where she first appeared on Broadway in 1898, returning periodically through 1932.<ref name="WhoTheatre" /><ref>Johnson Briscoe, ''The Actors' Birthday Book'', 3rd ser., New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909, p. 111</ref>
On June 2, 1895, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, she married fellow actor George Fawcett. In 1901 at Baltimore she formed the Percy Haswell Stock Company but later took a secondary role to her husband, her company forming a constituent part of the George Fawcett Stock Company.<ref name="Oursler">Fulton Oursler, ''Behold this dreamer!: An autobiography'', Little Brown, 1964, pp. 39-40</ref> For August 1903, Haswell performed as the leading lady at Denver's Elitch Theatre in four weekly productions with leading man, Robert Drouet.<ref>{{Cite web |last=R |first=Greg |title=1903 |url=https://historicelitchtheatre.org/year1903/ |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Historic Elitch Theatre |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1925, she directed the Broadway play, ''The Complex''. She also appeared in two films, 1919 and 1929- in the second she appeared with her husband.<ref name="Truitt">Evelyn Mack Truitt, ''Who Was Who on Screen'', 2nd ed., Bowker, 1977, p. 203</ref>
She died at age 74 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on June 14. 1945,<ref name="Truitt" /> the mother of one daughter.<ref>''The Billboard'', 23 Jun2 1945, p. 36</ref>
Writer Fulton Oursler commented, in describing his infatuation with her, that she was "so blonde, so blue-eyed, with voice so throaty sweet. She was a lass from Austin, Texas, but to me she seemed to belong to some other world altogether. She was my first Rosalind, and Juliet, and Ophelia, and a dozen other heroines, sacred and profane."<ref name="Oursler" />
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==External links== {{commonscat}} *{{IBDB name}} *{{IMDb name|id=0368665|name=Percy Haswell}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232421/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/theater/262.html 1899 portrait; Percy Haswell] *[http://www.asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.detail.people.aspx?personcode=per0050142 Percy Haswell: ''North American Theatre Online''] (AlexanderStreet.com)
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