# Percy Haswell
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{{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](/source/Austin%2C_Texas), U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|6|24|1871|4|30}}
| death_place = [Nantucket, Massachusetts](/source/Nantucket%2C_Massachusetts), U.S.
| other_names = *Miss Percy Haswell
*Mrs. George Fawcett
| occupation = Actress
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works =
| spouse = [George Fawcett](/source/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](/source/Austin%2C_Texas), the daughter of George Tyler Haswell, a politician and businessman, and Caroline Dalton.[John Parker, ed., ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 3rd Ed., London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916, vol. 3, p. 293] She was educated in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), and while still a child she first appeared on the stage in March 1885.[Johnson Briscoe, ''The Actors' Birthday Book'', 3rd ser., New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909, p. 111]
On June 2, 1895, at [Bridgeport, Connecticut](/source/Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut), she married fellow actor [George Fawcett](/source/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.[Fulton Oursler, ''Behold this dreamer!: An autobiography'', Little Brown, 1964, pp. 39-40] For August 1903, Haswell performed as the leading lady at [Denver's](/source/Denver) [Elitch Theatre](/source/Elitch_Theatre) in four weekly productions with leading man, [Robert Drouet](/source/Robert_Drouet).[{{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}}] 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.[Evelyn Mack Truitt, ''Who Was Who on Screen'', 2nd ed., Bowker, 1977, p. 203]
She died at age 74 in [Nantucket, Massachusetts](/source/Nantucket%2C_Massachusetts), on June 14. 1945,[''[The Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'', 23 Jun2 1945, p. 36]
Writer [Fulton Oursler](/source/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."