Mia May
Mia May, actually Hermine Pfleger, ( born June 2, 1884 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † November 28, 1980 in Hollywood, California ) was an Austrian silent film actress.
Life
By age 5, she had her first theater appearance and was afterwards often employed in children's roles. She went on to Vienna stage as an actress and a singer under her former stage name Herma Angelot. In 1902 she married the later director and film producer Joe May and got their daughter Eva, who also as a (children's) actress later appeared in the productions of Joe May.
Under her new stage name Mia May 1910 she was again working at the Theater ( operetta theater in Hamburg) and her husband took her stage name for itself. In 1912, she starred in the first film of her husband on in the depth of the shaft. In the following years, their work was not limited to the film productions of Joe May. From 1916 she stylized Joe May be one of the first divas of the German film in a kind of Mia -May- series of melodramatic films. She played leading roles in Fritz Lang's The Wandering Image (1920 ) and especially in the great Joe May productions Veritas vincit (1919), The Mistress of the World (1919), The Indian Tomb (1921) and Tragedy of Love ( 1923).
After the suicide of her daughter Eva May 1924, she ended her acting career. Together with her husband she emigrated to the USA in 1933.