Florence Barker

Florence Barker was born on Nov 22, 1891 in USA. Florence Barker's big-screen debut came with The Two Brothers directed by D.W. Griffith in 1910.

Florence Barker was born on November 22, 1891 in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Norman Barker, was a farmer and she had four siblings. When she was a teenager she began acting with stock companies. Florence fell in love with actor Joe De Grasse, who was eighteen years older than her. They moved in together and he helped guide her career. In 1908 she made her film debut in D.W. Griffith's An Awful Moment. Over the next three years she appeared in more than fifty films including The Course Of True Love, The Diamond Star, and The Newlyweds with Mary Pickford. She became one of the first American actresses to make films in Europe.