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Louisa Lane Drew was born on January 10, 1820 in London, England. Her parents were actors, and she was carried on the stage at the age of twelve months. Her widowed mother ( later Mrs. Kinloch) brought her to America in 1827, and she appeared at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, as the Duke of York to the elder Booth’s Richard III.
Drew's widowed mother brought her to America in 1827, and she appeared at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, as the Duke of York to the elder Booth’s Richard III. She was a clever mimic and “quick study, ” and became famous as an “infant phenomenon” over the country, which she toured with her mother. She acted Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child, and a protean sketch in which she took five parts.
In 1831 she and her mother were shipwrecked off Santo Domingo on the way to Jamaica. Returning to the United States, she joined the Ravel family for a tour. For a time she was with Macready, and like most actresses of that period she played a great variety of parts.
In 1847, at the Park Theatre, New York, she tore a leaf out of Charlotte Cushman’s book, by acting Romeo, and then outdid her by acting Antony. After her marriage to Drew, she concentrated more on comedy roles, for which she was best fitted, playing among many others Peg Woffington, Lydia Languish, Hypolita in She Would and She Wouldn’t, Lady Teazle, and later her most famous part, Mrs. Malaprop.
In 1853 Drew had become part proprietor of the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia where his wife had a glimpse of the trials of management, and was forced to lake a hand in them. Later they toured together, and separately, and in 1861, she alone assumed once more the management of the Arch Street house, attacking the job with the great resolution characteristic of her, and in the first season herself acting forty-two different roles.
Her husband died in 1862, and she continued for more than thirty-one years to conduct the Arch Street Theatre, making it one of the best-known.
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In 1836 Drew married Henry B. Hunt, an English tenor and actor. In 1848, she was married a second time George Mossop, an Irish singing player. He lived but a year, and in 1850 she married, for a third husband, John Drew, and bore him three children, John, Georgiana , and Louisa, all destined to carry on the stage tradition.
