澳洲亿演员，曾出演《朱门巧妇》、《蝴蝶梦》、《无人生还》等。
生于费城。在底特律修道院受过教育。十余岁就登台演出。1905年首次在百老汇演出，不久就成为舞台上和早期无声片中出色的悲剧演员。但在二十年代的戏剧和三十年代的好莱坞影片中，她却成为了一位著名的喜剧演员，擅长扮演放荡、不拘小节的妻子和各种轻浮的女性。以在喜剧片《宠仆趣...
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.
