Olga Petrova (Actress)

Olga Petrova was a British actress, screenwriter, and playwright with a career spanning from 1911 to 1928. Though she claimed to be born in Warsaw, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, and spoke with an accent all her life, it was later widely accepted that she was actually Muriel Harding, born in Portsea, Hampshire, England, to Ellen and Herbert Harding. Her father worked as a municipal tax collector. The family moved to Tuebrook, Liverpool shortly after her birth, where she grew up and where her younger siblings were born.

Petrova entered acting around age 27 and remained active for 17 years. She was a British-American performer with brown hair and brown eyes, of average build, and she was straight. She passed away in 1977 at the age of 93.