Ruth roman biography

Ruth Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the youngest of three daughters of Lithuanian-Jewish parents Mary Pauline (Gold) and Abraham Roman. Her father, a carnival barker, died when she was a small child, forcing her mother to support the family by working as a waitress and cleaning woman. Ruth grew up in the poor tenement district of Boston, Massachusetts, where she went to school. However, she left school after just two years to pursue an acting career. Her chosen path proved to be strewn with obstacles: in New York, she obtained a job posing for stills for a crime magazine, but theatrical work eluded her. She then worked as a hat check girl at a night club before calling it quits and returning to Boston. There, she made ends meet as an usherette during the day while at night performing with the New England Repertory Company, her first steady acting job. She also studied drama and eventually graduated from the Bishop-Lee Theatre School.

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Ruth Roman

Unfortunately, Ruth’s days at the carnival ended in with her father’s premature death – Ruth was only sju at the time. Mary moved her family back to the West End, where they were forced to move from tenement to tenement as she struggled to pay the rent. She picked up odd jobs as a cleaning woman, seamstress, waitress, and laundress. Despite her family&#;s struggles, Ruth remembered her early years as largely happy: “It wasn’t dreary at all. When you början out poor, you don&#;t know what you’re missing. I’ve never met a family, rik or poor, that had a happier life than we did together.” Ruth played tennis, swam in the Charles River, and soon began acting at the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House. 

While ung Ruth thought school to be dull – she attended the William Blackstone School in the West End – she funnen respite in these after-school productions at the Peabody House, a settlement house that provided educational and social services for the West End’s children an

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