Marie Empress (26 March 1884 – October 1919), born Mary Ann Louisa Taylor, was a British actress on stage and in silent films. She acted in England and America and she disappeared from an ocean liner the day before it docked in New York. The cause was never determined and she was declared dead in 1921. Early life Mary Ann Louisa Taylor was born in Birmingham. Her father was a contractor. She sometimes claimed to be a great-grand niece of actor Edmund Kean. Career Empress began her stage career in England, performing as a male impersonator and in variety shows. She appeared on Broadway in The Little Cafe (1913), and began to work in motion pictures. She starred in several silent films, including Old Dutch (1915), The Stubbornness of Geraldine (1915), The Woman Pays (1915), Behind Closed Doors (1916), Sibyl's Scenario (1916), When We Were Twenty-One (1915), Love's Cross Roads (1916), The Chorus Girl and the Kid (1916), A Lesson from Life (1916), The Woman Redeemed (1916), The Girl Who Doesn't Know (1916), and The Guilty Woman (1919). Personal life and disappearance

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Marie Empress (26 March 1884 – October 1919), born Mary Ann Louisa Taylor, was a British actress on stage and in silent films. She acted in England and America and she disappeared from an ocean liner the day before it docked in New York. The cause was never determined and she was declared dead in 1921.