Ormi Hawley

{{Short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Ormetta Hawley

| image = Ormi Hawley, ca. 1912 (FLP Theatre Coll).jpg

| caption = Ormi Hawley, ca. 1912

| birth_name = Ormetta Grace Hawley

| birth_place = Holyoke, Massachusetts

| death_date = {{Death date|1942|6|3}}

| death_place = Rome, New York

}}

Ormetta Grace Hawley (February 21, 1889,{{Citation needed |date=November 2019}} Holyoke, Massachusetts{{cite news |title=Beauty from Mass., Ormi Hawley, star in Ansonia story |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39303822/ormi_hawley/ |accessdate=November 20, 2019 |work=The Butte Miner |date=October 1, 1916 |location=Montana, Butte |page=40|via = Newspapers.com}}—June 3, 1942, Rome, New York) was an American actress.

Hawley attended the New England Conservatory of Music.{{cite journal |title=Brief Biographies of Popular Players: Omri Hawley |journal=Motion Picture Magazine |date=February 1915 |page=107 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag09moti#page/n114/mode/1up/ |accessdate=November 20, 2019}} She began her acting career in live theatre with a stock theater company in Boston before turning to the new silent film industry in 1911 with Lubin Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[https://books.google.com/books?id=R2pAAQAAMAAJ&dq=Gertrude+Elliott&pg=PA555 "A Star of the Movies"] The Cosmopolitan (March 1914): 555-556.

Over her short film career she reportedly appeared in more than three hundred motion pictures, a large number of which would have been short films. She made her last film in 1919.

Hawley was married to Charles Fulcher, with whom she operated a farm near Camden, New York, for the last 15 years of her life. She also painted portraits and wrote stories for children. She died in a hospital in Rome, New York, on June 3, 1942.{{cite news |title=Ormi Hawley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39304693/ormi_hawley/ |accessdate=November 20, 2019 |work=Chicago Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=June 5, 1942 |location=Illinois, Chicago |page=16|via = Newspapers.com}}