Editing Edwin Booth (section)

{{short description|American actor (1833–1893)}}
{{About other people|the American actor|}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Edwin Booth
| image              = Edwin booth actor.jpg
| imagesize          = 
| caption            = Booth, {{c.|1886}}
| birth_date         = November 13, 1833
| birth_name         = Edwin Thomas Booth
| birth_place        = [[Bel Air, Maryland]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1893|06|7|1833|11|13}}
| death_place        = [[New York City]], U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]]<br />[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
| occupation         = Actor
| children           = 2, including [[Edwina Booth Grossman|Edwina]]
| father             = [[Junius Brutus Booth]]
| mother             = Mary Ann Holmes
| relatives          = {{Indented plainlist|
* [[John Wilkes Booth]] (brother)
* [[Junius Brutus Booth Jr.]] (brother)
* [[Asia Booth Clarke]] (sister)
* [[Edwina Booth Grossman]] (daughter)
}}

| family             = [[Booth family]]
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Mary Devlin Booth|Mary Devlin]]|1860|1863|reason=died}}
* {{marriage|[[Mary McVicker Booth|Mary McVicker]]|1869|1881|reason=died}}
}}
| yearsactive        = 
| othername          = "The Master"
| homepage           = 
| signature          = Edwin Booth Signature.svg
}}

'''Edwin Thomas Booth''' (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing [[Shakespeare]]an plays. In 1869, he founded [[Booth's Theatre]] in New York.<ref>Winter, William. "[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t0bv7qf34;view=1up;seq=5 Life and Art of Edwin Booth]". MacMillan and Co. (New York, 1893). pp. 48–49.</ref> He is considered by many to be the greatest American actor of the 19th century. However, his achievements are often overshadowed in modern discourse by his relationship with his younger brother, actor [[John Wilkes Booth]], who [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassinated]] the 16th president of the United States, [[Abraham Lincoln]].