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American actress and photographer (1923-2018)

Lydia Marie Clarke Heston (April 14, 1923 – September 3, 2018) was an American actress and photographer.

She was the wife of actor Charlton Heston.

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Biography

Clarke attended high school in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Northwestern University.^[1]

A comment by Carl Sandburg after he saw her perform with the Asheville Little Theatre led her to change her career plans from practicing law to acting.^[1]

On Broadway, Clarke portrayed Mary McLeod in Detective Story (1949).^[2] She appeared on Studio One on television.

Her film debut came in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).^[1]

Clarke took photographs "all over the world, recording everything from Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pass to the fellahin in their Nile villages."^[3]Time and Fortune were among the magazines that published her work.

She also exhibited her photographs in museums and galle