Nina Sevening


Nina Gladys Sevening was an English stage actress and singer who played minor comedy roles in a long string of Edwardian musical comedies in London and on tour.

Background

Sevening was born in Westminster, London. Her parents were H. W. Sevening, a German-born commercial clerk, and his English wife Gertrude. She was educated in London and Paris.

Career

Sevening first appeared on stage in December 1894 in The House That Jack Built at the Opera Comique. She later appeared in:
In 1903, Sevening toured in Three Little Maids. In 1905 she was a replacement player in the role of Gwenny Holden in Lady Madcap.
She married Victor Charles Hamilton Longstaffe and changed her last name after him. She retired from the stage in 1917.
There is a memorial to their only son, David John Longstaffe, in Aldeburgh Parish Church in Suffolk, England. David died on 16 September 1945 in Athens, where he was a Captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.