Laura Keene ( 20 July 1826 &ndash; 4 November 1873 ) was a British stage actress and theatre manager . In her twenty-year career , she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York . She is most famous for being the lead actress in the play '' Our American Cousin '' , which was attended by President Abraham Lincoln at Ford 's Theater in Washington , D.C. , on the evening of his assassination
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Laura Keene