Madam Olga

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Jane Barnell as Lady Olga
Jane Barnell (previously O'Boyle) (January 3, 1871-unknown) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals. A trapeze artist and commercial photographer, who used various stage names including Madame Olga, Lady Olga and Lady Olga Roderick. In her only film role in Tod Browning's cult classic Freaks, using her sideshow stage name Olga Roderick, she was billed as the "Bearded Lady".

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