Antoinette Perry — American Actress born on June 27, 1888, died on June 28, 1946

Mary Antoinette Perry was an actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards are her namesake... (wikipedia)

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.