Editing May Robson (section)

{{short description|Australian-American actress (1858–1942)}}
{{for|the American stage actress|May Waldron}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = May Robson
| image              = May Robson in Broadway to Hollywood trailer (2).png
| caption            = [[Trailer (promotion)|Trailer]] for ''[[Broadway to Hollywood (film)|Broadway to Hollywood]]'' (1933)
| birth_name         = Mary Jeanette Robison
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1858|04|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Moama]], [[New South Wales]], Australia
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1942|10|20|1858|04|19|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Beverly Hills]], [[California]], U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Flushing Cemetery]], [[Queens]], New York City
| occupation         = Actress
| years_active       = 1883–1942
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Charles L. Gore|1875|1883|reason=d.}}
* {{marriage|Augustus H. Brown|1889|1920|reason=d.}}
}}
| children           = 3
}}

'''Mary Jeanette Robison''' (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942), known professionally as '''May Robson''', was an Australian-born America-based actress whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she is remembered for the dozens of films she appeared in during the 1930s, when she was in her 70s.

Robson was the earliest-born person, and the first Australian to be nominated for an [[Academy Award]] (for her leading role in ''[[Lady for a Day]]'' in 1933).<ref name=Nissen184>{{cite book|title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties|author=Nissen, Axel|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|page=184|isbn=978-0-7864-2746-8|year=2007}}</ref><ref name="Academy Award nom">{{cite news | url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/02/20/1234633067981.html | title=O stands for Oscar and also for Oz | author=Phillipa Hawker | date=February 21, 2009 | website=The Age | access-date=13 November 2016 }}</ref>