Biography from Chambers Biographical Dictionary 1997

1872-1953 (originally Maude Kiskadden); US actress. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, she was a child star before making her New York debut in 1888, having taken her actress-mother's maiden name. After achieving fame as Lady Babbie in J M Barrie's The Little Minister (1897), she starred in several more of his plays, and is said to have inspired his most famous character, Peter Pan, a role she took in New York in 1905. She retired in 1918, but returned to the stage in Shakespearean roles (1931, 1934), and taught theatre in Missouri from 1937 to 1950.

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