Edna Purviance 8 pictures

Actress
Edna Purviance began working as a stenographer in San Francisco. Charles Chaplin invited her to join him at Essanay Studio in 1915, the year of her film debut in Chaplin's His Night Out. Over the next seven years she appeared as his leading lady in over 20 Chaplin films made by Essanay, Mutual, and First National, including the classics The Tramp ...

Born: October 21, 1895
Star sign: Libra
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Known for: The Kid (1921), A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923), The Immigrant (1917), Shoulder Arms (1918)
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