Lyda Roberti

Acting

16 Movies

Born

May 20, 1906

Died

December 3, 1938

Place of Birth

Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

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Biography

Lyda's father was German clown Roberti, her mother a Polish trick rider. As a child performer, she toured Europe and Asia with the Circus in which she was born, leaving it (and her reportedly abusive father) in Shanghai, China. In this truly international city, Lyda became a child cafe entertainer and learned the fractured English that became her trademark. Around 1927, she emigrated to California…