Fania Marinoff

Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff by Arnold Genthe in 1913
Born	March 20, 1890 Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	November 17, 1971 (aged 81) Englewood, New Jersey
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Carl Van Vechten (1914-1964)

Fania Marinoff (Russian: Фаня Маринов; Yiddish: פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו‎) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress.

She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917.

Born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she was the youngest of 13 siblings. She came to the United States as a young child with her elder brother Louis, whom she lived with until she joined a traveling play company around the age of fourteen. She married Carl Van Vechten in 1914. They had met two years earlier, and their marriage lasted over 50 years, despite rumors of Van Vechten's homosexuality.

She died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey from pneumonia.