Amy Fawsitt

{{short description|English actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Amy Fawsitt

| image = Amy Fawsitt.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Amy Fawsitt, circa 1870

| birth_date = 1836

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1876|12|26|1836}}

| death_place = New York City, US

| other_names = Mrs. Menzies

| occupation = Actress

}}

Amy Fawsitt (c. 1836 – December 26, 1876) also known as Mrs. Menzies, was an English actress.

In 1867, Miss Fawsitt made her first appearance on the London stage at the old Standard Theatre, Globe Theatre, Vaudeville Theatre. At this period she was looked upon as a promising rival of Marie Wilton.

Fawsitt died of tuberculosis on December 26, 1876, in New York. She had made her American debut in September 1876 in Life at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and withdrew on October 10.{{cite web|url=http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/20056 |title=Amy Faswitt |work=PictureHistory.com |accessdate=August 19, 2012 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222041253/http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/20056 |archivedate=February 22, 2012 }}Brown, T. Allston. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924082209457#page/14/mode/2up A History of the New York Stage, Vol. 3], pp. 14-15 (1903)(12 September 1877). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1877/09/12/80660559.pdf Amy Fawsitt's Sad Death], The New York Times