The Official Helen Hayes Web Site

Birth name:	Helen Hayes Brown
Height:	Five feet
Eye color:	Brown
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.