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Jane Barnell

Princess Olga

Madame Olga

Lady Olga

Olga Roderick, Acting

Wilmington, North Carolina | 1879-01-03 | 1945-07-21

Jane Barnell (January 3, 1879 – July 21, 1945) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals, who used various stage names including Princess Olga, Madame Olga and Lady Olga. In her only film role in Tod Browning's cult classic Freaks, using the sideshow stage name Olga Roderick, she was billed as the "Bearded Lady". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Barnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.