Elsa Lanchester
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"Elsa Sullivan Lanchester" was an English character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.

Lanchester studied dance as a child and after World War I began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). His success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, California/Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles.

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She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth-or anywhere else.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.