First professional stage actress

First professional stage actress
Who
Margaret Hughes
Where
United Kingdom ()
When
Margaret Hughes (UK, 1643-1719) appeared as Desdemona in Thomas Killigrews version of Othello, The Moor of Venice on the 3 December 1660, at a converted tennis court called the Vere Street Theatre, London, UK. The audience were told during a prologue that she would appear and during an epilogue was asked: And how do you like her? The applause that followed guaranteed the place of actresses on the English stage.