Jane Wolfe(1875-1958)
- Actress
A Pennsylvania Dutch girl who moved to New York in the late 19th
century to pursue a theatrical career, she became one of early silent
pictures' better known character actresses. Between 1910 and 1920 she
appeared in over 90 films, but then her acting career all but ended,
and she devoted the rest of her life to the study and teaching of an
occult religion. In 1918 she had begun a correspondence with the
English writer and occultist Aleister Crowley. In 1920 she left
Hollywood to join Crowley at his "Abbey of Thelema" on the Italian
island of Sicily where she lived for several years, becoming his
student Soror Estai, and accepting his new religion of sex, drugs, and
magick in the name of personal liberation. Later she returned to
Southern California where she continued to represent Crowley, and
taught his doctrines for many years until her death in
1958.
