Alexandra Carlisle

Alexandra Carlisle (15 January 1886 – 21 April 1936) was an English actress and suffragette who settled in the United States. Her maiden name was Alexandra Elizabeth Swift, and she was also known in the U.S. as Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer, adding the name of her third husband.

Born in 1886 at Hackney, Middlesex, Carlisle was the daughter of Henry Swift, a schoolmaster, and his wife Alexandra.

In 1903, she was Audrey in a stage production of As You Like It and Maria in Twelfth Night. In March 1907, she played the lead in Gladys Buchanan Unger's play Mr. Sheridan at the Garrick Theatre. In September 1908, at the Garrick Theatre, she played the title role in Hubert Henry Davies's play The Mollusc, with Joseph Coyne. Also in 1908, she appeared in two Shakespeare productions by Herbert Beerbohm Tree: as Olivia in Twelfth Night and as Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

In 1905, Carlisle had married Victor Herbert Miller at Maidenhead. In 1907, she petitioned for divorce, and in 1908, she married Joseph Coyne, her leading man in The Mollusc. This marriage also ended in divorce.

On 17 May 1911, Carlisle played the part of Georgina Vesey in a royal command performance of the play Money at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for King George V, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and the Empress of Germany.

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