Editing Edwin Forrest (section)

{{short description|American actor (1806–1872)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Edwin Forrest
| birthname   = 
| image       = Edwin Forrest.jpg
| caption     = [[Daguerreotype]] of Forrest by [[Mathew Brady]]
| birth_date  = {{Birth date |1806|3|9|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1872|12|12|1806|3|9|mf=y}}
| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| occupation  = Actor
| signature   = Appletons' Forrest Edwin signature.jpg
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Catherine Norton Sinclair]]| June 23, 1837|January 24, 1852|end=divorced}}
}}

'''Edwin Forrest''' (March 9, 1806{{snd}}December 12, 1872) was a nineteenth-century American [[Shakespeare]]an actor. His feud with the British actor [[William Macready]] was the cause of the deadly [[Astor Place Riot]] of 1849.