Nina Sevening
Nina Gladys Sevening was an English stage actress and singer who played minor comedy roles in a long string of Edwardian musical comedies in London and on tour.
Background
Sevening was born in Westminster, London. Her parents were H. W. Sevening, a German-born commercial clerk, and his English wife Gertrude. She was educated in London and Paris.Career
Sevening first appeared on stage in December 1894 in The House That Jack Built at the Opera Comique. She later appeared in:- My Innocent Boy at the Royalty Theatre 1898Florodora at the Lyric Theatre 1899The Silver Slipper at the Lyric Theatre 1901A Country Girl at Daly's Theatre 1902The Cingalee at Daly's Theatre 1904The Little Michus at Daly's Theatre 1905The Merveilleuses at Daly's Theatre 1906The Geisha at Daly's Theatre 1906The Merry Widow at Daly's Theatre 1907Susannah and Some Others at the Royalty Theatre 1908Marjory Strode at The Playhouse 1908Mid-Channel at St James's Theatre 1909The Great Mrs. Alloway at the Globe Theatre 1909Mid-Channel at the Empire Theatre 1910A Woman's Way, Comedy Theatre 1910Grace at the Duke of York's Theatre 1910Passers By at Wyndham's Theatre 1911What Every Woman Knows at the Duke of York's Theatre 1911Mind the Paint Girl at the Duke of York's Theatre 1912The Perplexed Husband at the Empire Theatre 1912Peter Pan at the Duke of York Theatre 1913King's Cup at the Adelphi Theater 1913The Clever Ones at Wyndham's Theatre 1914Caroline at the New Theatre 1916 Trelawny of the 'Wells' at the New Theatre 1917
She married Victor Charles Hamilton Longstaffe and changed her last name after him. She retired from the stage in 1917.
There is a memorial to their only son, David John Longstaffe, in Aldeburgh Parish Church in Suffolk, England. David died on 16 September 1945 in Athens, where he was a Captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.