Actress. She is best known for playing character roles including the grandmotherly types. She was given the nickname of the 'grandmother of the films' and 'the oldest actress on the screen.' Together with the likes of Russell Bassett, Sarah Bernhardt, W. Chrystie Miller, Mary Maurice, Kate Meeks, Matt B. Snyder, and Anna Townsend, they were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s. She will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Granny Hope' in the romance drama film, "Polly Of The Storm Country" (1920), which also starred Mildred Harris, Emory Johnson, and Kate Burton. She was born as Ruby Livingston in Augusta, Kentucky, on July 22, 1844. She began her acting career on the stage during the 1870s and with her own company she appeared in such stage plays as "Pygmalion And Galatea," and "Damon And Pythias." Her stage career lasted for almost fifty years and then she went onto appear in films during the 1910s. She usually worked with Universal Studios, worked with director Rupert Julian, and appeared with actors including Lon Chaney. She made her actual film debut playing the role of 'Mrs. Standing' in the film drama, "Mother o' Mine" (1917). The film which was written and directed by Rupert Julian, and which also starred Ruth Clifford, and E. Alyn Warren, tells the story of Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, who sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing school, John goes to the city where his financial success blinds him to the basic values taught to him by his mother. One night, during an important social event, Mrs. Standing arrives at her son's house carrying a wicker basket full of homemade jams. John, ashamed, tells his fiancé, the wealthy Catherine Thurston, that the old lady was his childhood nurse. Mrs. Standing overhears her son's deception and, devastated, returns home. John, remorseful, follows with the firm resolution to devote future years to the care of his mother. Learning the truth, Catherine, accompanied by her own mother, visits the Standing's country home and all is forgiven. Besides, "Mother o' Mine" (1917), and "Polly Of The Storm Country" (1920), her many other film credits include, "The Man Trap" (1917), "The Kaiser, The Beast Of Berlin" (1918), "Beauty In Chains" (1918), "The Mounted Men" (1918), "The Yellow Dog" (1918), "The Strange Woman" (1918), "Sue Of The South" (1919), "Rustling A Bride" (1919), "Cyclone Smith Plays Trumps" (1919), "In His Brother's Place" (1919), "The Miracle Man" (1919), "Toby's Bow" (1919), "Old Lady 31" (1920), "Big Bob" (1921), "Borderland" (1922), "Catch My Smoke" (1922), "The Power Of A Lie" (1922), "Hollywood" (1923), "The Day Of Faith" (1923), "The Phantom Horseman" (1924), "Idle Tongues" (1924), "Tomorrow's Love" (1925), "The Coming Of Amos" (1925), "The Wedding Song" (1925), "Butterflies In The Rain" (1925), "Marriage By Contract" (1928), "Not So Dumb" (1930), and her last film, "If I Had A Million" (1932). During her acting career, she also used the names of Ruby La Fayette and Ruby LaFayette. When she was eighty-two years old she was seriously injured when she was hit by a car. She eventually recovered and returned to acting until she was eighty-eight years old when she therefore retired. She lived for another three years and passed away from natural causes at the age of ninety-one. She was married to the stage actor John T. Curran until his death in 1918. Together the couple had one child, a son named Don Curran.