Actress. She is best known for playing the character roles of authoritative figures including mothers, aunts, and old ladies. She will be best remembered for playing the role of "Ma' in the drama film, "No More Children" (1929). The film which was directed by Albert E. Kelley, and which also starred Lilian Bond, Lewis Sargent, Vivian Bay, Eddy Chandler, and Tom London, tells the story of a judge who denies a divorce to a young couple with four children and orders them to have no more children. The wife dies when she undergoes an illegal operation to sterilize her. She was born one of eight children to John Allen and his wife Rachel Russell 'Ray' Allen in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on June 9, 1863. She began her acting career by appearing in a stage act with her sisters Ray Allen and Louise Allen during the 1880s. She also performed in a company which was headed by actress Nance O'Neill for nine years, in vaudeville with her own company, and performed at Niblo's Garden for more than five years. She also appeared in stage productions and stage musicals on Broadway in New York, New York, including, "Judith Of Bethulia" (1904), "The Fires Of St. John" (1904), "Hedda Gabler" (1904), "Magda" (1904), "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1907), "Up And Down Broadway" (1910), and "Blind Alleys" (1924). During her stage career, she worked with such acting personalities as Gertrude Binley, Charles Dalton, Charles Millward, McKee Rankin, Arthur H. Sawyer, Rae Scott, Frederick Symer, Clara T. Bracy, Joseph Wheelock Jr., Augustus Balfour, John Costello, J. Carlin Crandel, Alberta Davidson, Richard Farrell, Jane Meredith, Emilie Montrose, Kate Pierce Roemer, Charles Wagenheim, George Wellington, Dorothy Yates, Elwood Bostwick, Herbert Bostwick, Fred Brown, Paul Brown, George Clark, Gretchen Hartman, Ethel Hodgson, Frank E. Jamison, Viola La Bretta, Lucille La Verne, Frank Opperman, W.A. Playter, John Southerland, Fred C. Stein, and Edward L. Walton, among many more. She made her actual film debut playing the role of 'The Mother' in the short drama film, "His Mother's Song" (1913), which also starred Jane Fearnley, and William E. Shay. Besides, "His Mother's Song" (1913), and "No More Children" (1929), her many other film credits include, "Who Killed Olga Carew?" (1913), "Forgiven" or, "The Jack Of Diamonds" (1914), "Old Man Higgenbotham's Daughter" (1914), "Convict, Costumes And Confusion" (1914), "Runaway Jane" (1915), "The World Upstairs" (1915), "The Studio Of Life" (1915), "The Hen's Duckling" (1915), "The Jewelled Dagger Of Fate" (1915), "A Disciple Of Plato" (1915), "A Daughter Of The Gods" (1916), "A Wife By Proxy" (1917), "The Mortal Sin" (1917), "God's Man" (1917), "The Duchess Of Doubt" (1917), "Lady Barnacle" (1917), "Aladdin's Other Lamp" (1917), "The Lifted Veil" (1917), "Life's Whirlpool" (1917), "Outwitted (1917), "The Shell Game" (1918), "With Neatness And Dispatch" (1918), "The Passing Of The Third Floor Back" (1918), "The Heart Of A Girl" (1918), "The Power And The Glory" (1918), "Our Mrs. McChesney" (1918), "The Divorcee" (1919), "Speedy Meade" (1919), "The Man Who Stayed At Home" (1919), "The Chamber Mystery" (1920), "Headin' Home" (1920), "The Song Of The Soul" (1920), "The Oath" (1921), "Silas Marner" (1922), "The Empty Cradle" (1923), "The Mad Dancer" (1925), "The Virgin Wife" (1926), "Many A Slip" (1927), "A Greenwich Village Romance" (1927), "Close Harmony" (1929), "Murder In Trinidad" (1934), "Whom The Gods Destroy" (1934), "The Pursuit Of Happiness" (1934), "The Painted Veil" (1934), "Men Without Names" (1935), "Thanks A Million" (1935), "The Invisible Ray" (1936), "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" (1936), "Florida Special" (1936), "Show Boat" (1936), "Fury" (1936), "Maid Of Salem" (1937), "The Last Train From Madrid" (1937), "Exclusive" (1937), "Blonde Trouble" (1937), "Partners In Crime" (1937), "Rosalie" (1937), "Three Comrades" (1938), "Blockade" (1938), "One Million B.C." (1940), "They Knew What They Wanted" (1940), and her last film, "Red Skins And Red Heads" (1941). She retired from acting shortly thereafter. She never married nor had any children.