Odette Tyler

Elizabeth Lee Kirkland (September 26, 1869 – December 8, 1936) was an American actress, writer and arts patron known professionally as Odette Tyler.[3] Her older brother, Hardee Kirkland, was an actor and director in silent films.[6] Odette Tyler started her New York stage career in 1884, in Sieba, a spectacle.Her other theatrical appearances included roles in the shows The Private Secretary, In Spite of All, Featherbrain (1889), Men and Women (1890), Lost Paradise, The Councillor's Wife (1892), Shenandoah (1892), The Girl I Left Behind Me (1893), The Younger Son (1893), Poor Girls (1894), The Man Upstairs (1895), The Gay Parisians (1895),[5] William Hooker Gillette's Secret Service (1896, in London 1897),[7][8] Phroso (1899), The Heart of Maryland (1905), The Love Route (1906), It Happened in Dixie (1914).Tyler wrote a novel, Boss: A Story of Virginia Life, published in 1895.