Edwin Booth Biography

Edwin Booth biography

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NAME: Edwin Booth
OCCUPATION: Theater Actor
BIRTH DATE: November 13, 1833
DEATH DATE: June 07, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bel Air, Maryland
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
Full Name: Edwin Thomas Booth

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Edwin Booth (1833–1893) was a famous Shakespearean actor and brother of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

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As a young man, Edwin Booth (1833–1893) cared for his alcoholic actor father. After his death, Booth became a leading man and comanager of the Winter Garden Theater in New York. He earned great acclaim and popularity as Hamlet. His brother John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 forced Edwin out of the limelight briefly, but he returned to even further success abroad.