Peggy Pryde

Peggy Pryde born 19 July 1867, (Baptised as Letitia Matilda on 14 May 1876 in Lambeth London England) – 17 May 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) (Baptised as Letitia Matilda on 14 May 1876) was a British music hall performer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She appeared in Australia's first talking film Fellers in 1930.

Pryde was one of three children born to the popular music hall artiste Jenny Hill and John Wilson Woodley (died 8 January 1890), an acrobat who used the stage name Jean Pasta and who later abandoned his wife and young family.

Her first professional appearance was at the Mechanics' Music Hall in Yorkshire in 1877. The same year she went to Dublin and played the General in a stage version of Gulliver’s Travels at the Theatre Royal. She made her London music hall debut at Gatti's "Gatti's-in-the-Road" on Westminster Bridge Road. From 1878 to 1879 she appeared with Wilson Barrett at the Grand Theatre in Leeds. The next two years were spent at the Theatre Royal in Manchester. Pryde appeared in all the leading halls in London and throughout Britain. She was also a favourite in pantomime, appearing at venues throughout Britain for some years. In December 1896 she appeared in a revival of the Edwardian musical comedy The Gay Parisienne with W.H. Denny and Ada Reeve at the Duke of York's Theatre. From 1890 to 1892 she toured the United States:

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