Iris Adrian
- Category : 1912-births
- Type : PE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Planning 2
Biography
American actress who specialised in playing hard-boiled gals, glamorous gold-diggers, and gangsters' "molls" in 1930s films. She played supporting roles in numerous features such as "Gee-Gee Graham" in Lady of Burlesque (1943).
Adrian worked with the Ziegfeld Follies before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands (1928) and appeared as an extra or chorus girl in early sound films like Paramount on Parade (1930).
She acted regularly, albeit without achieving star status, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in more than one hundred films. She also played numerous guest roles in various television series.
Iris Adrian was married four times, divorced three times, widowed once and had no children. She died in Los Angeles on 17 September 1994 at age 82, from injuries sustained during the 1994 Northridge earthquake eight months earlier.