Carlotta Freeman
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{{Infobox person
| name = Carlotta Freeman
| image =
| birth_name = Carlotta Thomas
| birth_date = {{circa|1877}}
| birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1954|06|11|1877|06|01}}
| death_place = New York, New York, United States
| occupation = actor
| spouse = H. Lawrence Freeman
| years_active = 1905–1954
| awards =
}}
Carlotta Freeman ({{circa|1877}}{{snd}}June 11, 1954) was an American stage actress. She was one of the first African American women in the legitimate theatre.
Biography
Born Carlotta Thomas, she made her professional acting debut in 1905 and her first appearance on the New York stage in 1912. In 1915, she became one of the original members of the Anita Bush Stock Company (later called the Lafayette Players), one of the first black repertory theatre companies.{{cite web
|url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/anita-bush-players
|title= Anita Bush Players
|publisher=BlackPast.org
|location= Seattle, Washington
|accessdate=2010-09-30
}}
She also starred in several operettas written by her husband, H. Lawrence Freeman, such as Voodoo which premiered in 1928.{{cite journal |date=June 26, 1954 |title=The final curtain |journal=The Billboard |page=45 }}
She died on June 11, 1954, in New York City, just a few months after her husband.
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Category:Actresses from Charleston, South Carolina
Category:20th-century African-American actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:20th-century African-American people
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