Ivy Troutman (September 23, 1884 – January 12, 1979) was an American supporting actress active during the first half of the twentieth century. She acted in at least twenty-one Broadway productions between 1902 and 1945, appearing in such long-running plays as A Pair of Sixes, Baby Mine and The Late George Apley. In the 1920s Troutman, with her husband, portrait painter Waldo Peirce, joined the colony of American expatriates in Paris that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Early life Ivy Troutman was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the middle of three daughters raised by John J. Troutman and Lyda H. West. Her father, a native of New York, was a carpenter by trade. Her mother, who was born in New Jersey, died at the age of thirty-three just a few days past Troutman's ninth birthday. Troutman attended Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the family had relocated at some point in her youth and, after their return to Long Branch, Chattle High School. Career Troutman made her professional stage debt at Wallack's Theatre on April 14, 1902, playing a minor rôle in the Leo Ditrichstein drama, The Last Appeal. Later that year and into the next she toured with E. H. Sothern as Isabel in If I Were King, a historical drama by Justin Huntly McCarthy. At the Herald Square Theatre in March 1903,Troutman played Annie Bellamy to the Peg Woffington of Grace George in Frances Aymar Mathews's biographical drama, Pretty Peggy. She subsequently left the cast of Pretty Peggy to play leading rôles with Amelia Bingham's touring company before joining Boston's Castle Square Theatre the following season as a stock player. Over the 1905–06 season Troutman toured as Bessie Tanner in George Ade's comedy The Other Girl, and in 1907 she portrayed Estelle Kitteridge in a tour of the Augustus Thomas comedy The Other Girl. At the Empire Theatre on March 2, 1908, Troutman played Frances Berkeley in Ade's comedy-drama, Father and the Boys and the following year toured in Augustus Thomas' The Witching Hour. Broadway Of Troutman's twenty-one Broadway appearances Father and the Boys was the first to achieve a modicum of commercial success with a run of eighty-eight performances. Troutman was Aggie in Baby Mine, a comedy by Margaret Mayo that had a long run during the 1910–11 season at the old Daly's Theatre on 1221 Broadway. In