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Zena was born Florence Hariette Zena Dones on February 4th, 1887 in London.

Zena and her younger sister Phyllis first used the stage name 'Dare' in "Babes In The Wood" in 1899 at the Coronet Theatre. Phyllis playing the girl babe, Zena as understudy to the boy babe.

Zena Dare created the lead role in a musical comedy titled "Catch of the Season" on September 5, 1904 at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. She had several minor success roles before marriage to the Hon. Maurice Brett in January, 1911.

She played Peter Pan in the first provincial production of the play that opened at the Prince's Theatre, in Manchester, on 24 December 1906.

Zena made her final stage appearance at Drury Lane's Theatre Royal playing the part of 'Mrs Higgins', Rex Harrison's mother in "My Fair Lady". It opened in April of 1958 and ran for five and a half years.

Zena left this life on March 11, 1975, in London, England.

My Interests

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are used with permission by Ron Ramirez.
Visit his Zena Dare pages
by clicking below:

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Thanks Ron!

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Some of Zena's Stage
Appearances


Christmas 1899
Babes in Toyland
understudy to Boy Babe

1900-1903
Various pantomimes

An English Daisy
as Daisy Maitland

Cinderella
as Cinderella

Sergeant Brue

The Catch of the Season
as Angela

Beauty and the Beast
as Beauty

Lady Madcap
as Lady Madcap

The Little Cherub
as Lady Elizabeth Congress

The Girl on the Stage
as The Girl

The Beauty of Bath
as Betty Silverthorne

The Catch of the Season
as Angela

Peter Pan
as Peter Pan

The Gay Gordons
as Victoria Siddons

The First Mrs Fraser
as Mrs Fraser.

Cynara
as Clemency Warlock

Counsel's Opinion
as Leslie

The Gay Gordons
as Peggy Quainton

Papa's Wife

Mitislaw, or the Love Match
as Princess Amaranth

The Dashing Little Duke Duc de Richelieu

The Model and The Man

The Last of Mrs Cheyney
as Mrs Cheyney

The Second Man
as Kendall Frayne

The High Road

The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Squeaker

Other Men’s Wives

The First Mrs Fraser
as Mrs Fraser

Peter Pan
as Mrs Darling

Counsel's Opinion
as Leslie

Peter Pan
as Mrs Darling

Proscenium

Murder in Mayfair
as Mrs Sherry

Careless Rapture
as Phyllida Frame

Spring Meeting
as Tiny Fox-Coller

Full House
as Frynne Rodney

Dear Brutus
as Lady Caroline

Peter Pan
as Mrs Darling

The Watch on the Rhine
as Fanny Farrelly

Alice Through The Looking Glass
as The Red Queen

Another Love Story
as Elsie

Perchance to Dream
as Charlotte Fayre

Kings Rhapsody

Sabrina Fair
as Julia Ward McKinlock

Double Image
as Edith Billingsley

Nude with Violin
as Isobel Sorodin

My Fair Lady
as Mrs Higgins

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Movies:

Zena's Film
Appearances


1921
No. 5 John Street
as Tilda

1930
A Knight in London

1938
Over the Moon
as Julie Derthrop

1938
The Return of Carol Deane
as Lady Brenning

Television:

Some of Zena's
Television
Appearances


1938
Spring Meeting

Barbie
on ITV Network
10/25/1955-12/06/1955
as Miss Fothergill

ITV Playhouse
1956
The Burning Glass
as Lady Terriford

An Ideal Husband
BBC1
05/11/1969
as Lady Markby