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Birth name: Helen Hayes Brown

Height: Five feet

Eye color: Dark Blue

Hair color: Brown

Born: October 10, 1900, Washington D.C.

Died: March 17, 1993, Nyack, New York

Husband: Charles MacArthur, playwright; died in 1956

Children: Mary MacArthur, died of polio at age 19. James MacArthur, adopted son, became actor (Disney, Hawaii Five-O)

Famous for: Her role as the queen in Victoria Regina; also for being very down-to-earth for a Broadway actress.