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Ethnicity:
Arthur's paternal grandfather was from a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish family which settled in England, while his other grandparents were from a Christian English background.
Pinero was born on May 24, 1855 in London, in the family of Lucy (Daines) and John Daniel Pinero. He had two sisters, Frances Pinero and Mary Ross Pinero.
Arthur studied law at Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution before going on the stage.
Arthur was obliged to work in his father’s office from the age of ten. However, Pinero found the law unendurably dull and aspired to an acting career, leaving home at the age of nineteen to join a theater company in Edinburgh.
In 1874 Pinero joined R.H. Wyndham's company at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where he acted in supporting roles for five years, and later played under the Bancrofts' management at the Haymarket Theatre. He received good notice in Sheridan's The Rivals, in 1884, which he had revised himself.
Pinero began writing plays in the late 1870s while at the Lyceum, including Daisy's Escape in 1879 and Bygones in 1880. He became a prolific and successful playwright, authoring fifty-nine plays. These include serious social dramas.
Arthur's farce The Amazons was adapted into the 1917 film of the same name, starring Marguerite Clark. His 1923 romance The Enchanted Cottage was successfully filmed in 1924 and 1945. His House in Order was made into a 1928 silent film starring Tallulah Bankhead, but the film is lost. Both The Magistrate and Dandy Dick were made into films starring Will Hay.
While tremendously popular in his day, his plays are rarely revived. Even in his final years he saw his work starting to go out of style. However, The Magistrate was newly produced by the Royal National Theatre and ran from November 2012 – January 2013, in the Olivier Theatre starting John Lithgow and Nancy Carroll among others.
In 1887, Pinero was elected a member of the Garrick Club.
On April 19, 1883, Arthur married Myra Emily Wood, who had acted under the stage name of Myra Holme, a widow with two children, Angus and Myra, from her first marriage. They had no children together.
