Eliza Rothchild

Rothchild, Eliza - Actor

Appeared in Witness in Death ([late] March, 2059)

Personal Information

• Description: A sternly attractive woman who didn’t bother to disguise her age.
• Hair: Auburn
• Eyes: Hazel
• Occupation: Actor

Description

• Her hair was a rich auburn threaded with silver; the lines around her hazel eyes fanned out without apology. She had a short, sturdy body and her smooth voice held the granite of New England.

Personality

• She loved the theater more than she had ever loved any man or any woman.
• According to “Anja Carvell”, Eliza was a delightful woman; so dignified and acerbic.

History

• She had made her stage debut at the age of six months as a fretful baby causing her parents distress in a drawing room comedy. The play had flopped, but Eliza had been the critic’s darling.
• Her mother had pushed her and, by the age of ten, Eliza was a veteran of stage and screen. By twenty, she’d been a respected character actress, with a room full of award, homes on three continents, and her first – and last – unhappy marriage behind her. At forty, no one wanted to see her and she claimed to be retired rather than used up, and had spent the last decade of her life traveling, throwing lavish parties, and fighting excruciating boredom.

Interesting Facts

• She played the nagging nurse, Miss Plimsoll, in Witness for the Prosecution where Draco was murdered on opening night.
• She said she couldn’t resist Roarke (to take the role of Miss Plimsoll) as there was nothing Roarke couldn’t talk a woman into. Or out of.
• Richard Draco had made snide little jokes about her lack of appeal; he considered her too plain, too physically ordinary.
• The deaths of those connected to the play brought to Eliza’s mind And Then There Were None, by Dame Christie.