'''Grace Cunard''' (born '''Harriet Mildred Jeffries'''; April 8, 1893 – January 19, 1967) was an American actress, [[screenwriter]], and film director.{{efn|The spelling of Curnard's middle name in her birth name varies in modern sources, being given as "Mildred" and in a few sources as "Milfred". Early official records clearly document it as Mildred, including her original 1912 certificate of marriage to Harry Harvey in Manhattan, New York. Her January 24, 1967 obituary in ''The New York Times'' also cites her full birth name as "Harriet Mildred Jeffries".}} During the silent era, she starred in over 100 films, wrote or co-wrote at least 44 of those productions, and directed no fewer than eight of them.<ref name="Abel">Bean, Jennifer M. "Cunard, Grace [Harriet Mildred Jeffries]", entry in ''Encyclopedia of Early Cinema'' by Richard Abel (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2005, p. 161.</ref> In addition, she edited many of her films, including some of the [[Short film|shorts]], [[Film serial|serials]], and features she developed in collaboration with [[Francis Ford (actor)|Francis Ford]]. Her younger sister, [[Mina Cunard]], was also a film actress.
[[File:Smuggler's Island - Cunard & Schumm.png|thumb|right|Cunard being restrained by fellow actor Harry Schumm in [[film still]] from ''Smuggler's Island'' (1915)]]
