Born on January 10, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, to an English father and an American mother, Violet Wilkey made her screen debut at the age of 12 in the D.W. Griffith screen epic _Birth of a Nation, The_, playing a young 'Mae Marsh'. She then appeared in The Children Pay (1916), but left the film world forever after Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) to retire to private life. Her film career lasted only two short years. She died on June 5, 1976 in North Hollywood, California, USA at the age of 73.