American actress
Thena Jasper |
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With Wanda Hawley in The Outside Woman |
Born | 1892
Pennsylvania, US |
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Occupation(s) | Screen actress, singer |
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Spouse | Adolph Jasper |
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Thena Jasper was an African American singer and actress who worked during Hollywood's silent era.[1][2]
Biography
A native of Pennsylvania, Jasper moved to Los Angeles with her husband Adolph (a baseball manager)[3] by the early 1910s and began appearing in a string of mostly uncredited roles, often playing maids to wealthy white characters. She once told a reporter, "If I had all the money represented by all the ‘millionaire’ characters I’ve worked for in the pictures, I'd never have to work again.”[4]
Selected filmography
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