Lucille Ricksen

Lucille Ricksen ( born: Lucille Ericksen, born August 22, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, † March 13, 1925 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film actress.

Life

Lucille Ricksen whose parents came from Scandinavia, began to work at the age of four years as a model and actress. First, present only in the Chicago area, she moved in 1920 with her parents and her older brother, who played himself some roles before the camera, to Los Angeles. Here, the eleven year old was in the same year Edgar and the Teacher's Pet on the side of Edward Peil also for the first time on camera. In 1921 she starred in The Old Nest is the only time in her brother's side.

Over the next three years she stood in yet another 25 films before the camera, in which they. Alongside well-known names such as Conrad Nagel, Anna Q. Nilsson, and Jack Pickford In 1924 she was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Ricksen fell ill in late 1924 from tuberculosis and died a short time later.