Musidora

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is known for her acting in silent films, and rose to fame for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.

==Early life== Musidora was born in Paris to music composer and theorist of socialism Jacques Roques and painter and feminist Adèle Clémence Porchez. Musidora began her career at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with Colette, one of her lifelong friends. During the early years of French cinema, Musidora began a professional collaboration with French film director Louis Feuillade. She made her film debut in ''Les Miseres de l'aiguille'' in January 1914. The film highlights the problems of the urban women in the French working-class, and presents a new representation of the female even by the working-class movement in the early 20th century in France.