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Russia-born actress Vera Nemirou got her start on stage as a child. In 1904 she and her family emigrated to New York where she began working in Yiddish theater, and from there she began working in British and U.S. vaudeville. Nemirou started her film career in 1920 when she played a variety of character roles. She was frequently cast as Jewish mothers up through 1946.