Agnes Ayres
Known for Acting · 57 credits
- Born
- 1892-04-04
- Died
- 1940-12-25
- Place of birth
- Carbondale, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Agnes Eyre Henkel · Agnes Eyre
Biography
From Wikipedia
Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1892 – December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik opposite Rudolph Valentino.
She was born Agnes Eyre Henkel in Carbondale, Illinois to Solon and Emma Slack Henkel on April 4, 1898. She had an older brother named Solon William Henkel born in 1888.
Ayres began her career in 1914 when she was noticed by an Essanay Studios staff director and cast as an extra in a crowd scene. After moving to New York City with her mother to pursue a career in acting, Ayres was spotted by actress Alice Joyce. Joyce noticed the physical resemblance the two shared, which eventually led to Ayres being cast in Richard the Brazen (1917) as Joyce's character's sister. Ayres' career began to gain momentum when Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Lasky began to take an interest in her. Lasky gave her a starring role in the Civil War drama Held by the Enemy (1920), and also lobbied for parts for her in several Cecil B. DeMille productions. It was during this time that Ayres married, and quickly divorced, Captain Frank P. Schuker, an army officer whom she had wed during World War I. She also began a romance with Lasky.
In 1921, Ayres shot to stardom when she was cast as Lady Diana Mayo, an English heiress opposite "Latin lover" Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik. Ayres later reprised her role as Lady Diana in the 1926 sequel Son of the Sheik. Following the release of The Sheik, she went on to have major roles in many other films including The Affairs of Anatol (1921) starring Wallace Reid, Forbidden Fruit (1921), and Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1923).
Known For
Movies (57)
Small Town Girl
1936
as Catherine (uncredited)
Cappy Ricks
1921
as Florrie Ricks
Racing Hearts
1923
as Virginia Kent
The Ten Commandments
1923
as The Outcast
Clarence
1922
as Violet Pinney
Morals for Men
1925
as Bessie Hayes
The Ordeal
1922
as Sybil Bruce
Midnight Taxi
1937
as Society Woman
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
1923
as Agnes Ayres
The Sheik
1921
as Lady Diana Mayo
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Annie Elliott
The Venturers
1917
as Mary Marsden
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Maid of Salem
1937
as Townswoman (Uncredited)
The Story Without a Name
1924
as Mary Walsworth
The Furnace
1920
as Folly Valance
The Son of the Sheik
1926
as Diana - Wife of the Sheik
A Modern Salome
1921
as Helen Torrence
The Girl Problem
1919
as Helen Reeves
Her Market Value
1925
as Nancy Dumont
Mrs. Balfame
1917
as Alys Crumley
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922
as Self
Bought and Paid For
1922
as Virginia Blaine
The Donovan Affair
1929
as Lydia Rankin
The Lane That Had No Turning
1922
as Madelinette
Worldly Goods
1924
as Eleanor Lawson
Richard the Brazen
1917
as Imogene
Held by the Enemy
1920
as Rachel Hayne
Mammon and the Archer
1918
as Helen Lantry
The Marriage Maker
1923
as Alexandra Vancy
The Gamblers
1919
as Isabel Emerson
Forbidden Fruit
1921
as Mary Maddock
Eve's Love Letters
1927
as The wife
Go and Get It
1920
as Helen Allen
When a Girl Loves
1924
as Sasha Boroff
The Dazzling Miss Davison
1917
as Lillian - Miss Davison's Sister
A Daughter of Luxury
1922
as Mary Fenton
Sacred Silence
1919
as Madge Summers
Tomorrow's Love
1925
as Judith Stanley
Too Much Speed
1921
as Virginia MacMurran
Motherhood
1917
as The Mother
Don't Call It Love
1924
as Alice Meldrum
A Stitch in Time
1919
as Lela Trevor
Bluff
1924
as Betty Hallowell
The Bottom of the Well
1917
as Alice Buckingham
The Heart Raider
1923
as Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
The Awful Truth
1925
as Lucy Satterlee
The Love Special
1921
as Laura Gage
Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927
as Herself
The Inner Voice
1920
as Barbara
Detained
1924
The Debt
1917
as The Girl
Into the Night
1928
as Billie Mardon
The Guilty One
1924
as Irene Short
A Little Ouija Work
1918
In Honor's Web
1919
as Irene Carson
About Agnes Ayres
From Wikipedia Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1892 – December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik opposite Rudolph Valentino. She was born Agnes Eyre Henkel in Carbondale, Illinois to Solon and Emma Slack Henkel on April 4, 1898. She had an older brother named Solon William Henkel born in 1888. Ayres began her career in 1914 when she was noticed by an Essanay Studios staff director and cast as an extra in a crowd scene. After m… With 57 credits spanning from 1917 to 1961, Agnes Ayres has appeared in 57 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Small Town Girl (1936) — as Catherine (uncredited)
- Cappy Ricks (1921) — as Florrie Ricks
- Racing Hearts (1923) — as Virginia Kent
- The Ten Commandments (1923) — as The Outcast
- Clarence (1922) — as Violet Pinney
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