Emmy Lynn

Acting

Born August 1, 1889, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Emmy Lynn (born Emily Leigh; 1889–1978) was a Spanish-born French actress. Lynn was born Emily Leigh in Barcelona to an English father who worked at the British Consulate and a half-Spanish and half-German mother. She arrived in Paris at the age of one. She was first married to actor Henry Roussel, then to Charles Peignot, and to theatre critic, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Gautier.

Filmography

• 1942The Four-Poster Bed — Countess of Verrières
• 1933The Two Orphans — Countess of Lignères
• 1933Une idée folle — Mabel
• 1932Ma femme... homme d'affaires — Gladys Spring
• 1930Illegitimate Child — Liane Orland
• 1929A Foolish Maiden
• 1926Le Vertige — Natacha Svirsky - une émigrée russe qui croit reconnaître son amant mort à Nice
• 1923Résurrection
• 1922The Sheik's Wife
• 1918The Tenth Symphony — Eve Dinant
• 1917L'hallali
• 1917The Torture of Silence — Manon Berliac