Charlotte Hennessy

• Name — Charlotte Hennessey Pickford • Occupation — Actress • Birth Name — Charlotte Hennessey • Born — 1873 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Died — 22 March 1928 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Resting Place — Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale • Children — Mary Pickford Lottie Pickford Jack Pickford

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Irish Catholic parents from Ballyduff, County Kerry, Charlotte Hennessey supported herself as a seamstress. She married John Charles Smith, a son of English Methodist immigrants. She agreed to rear their children in his Methodist faith. The couple had three children: Gladys Louise, later actress Mary Pickford; Charlotte, later actress Lottie Pickford; and John Charles, later actor Jack Pickford.

On March 22, 1928, Smith died of breast cancer after refusing additional surgery. She had already had several major operations. She was buried in the Pickford plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. She bequeathed $200,000 (approximately $3.5 million in 2023 dollars) each in trust to her two younger children, Jack and Lottie, and to Lottie's daughter Gwynne. She left the large bulk of her estate to her eldest daughter Mary of $1 million (approximately $17 million in 2023 dollars), and she acknowledged the reasons in her will: "Whatever property I possess at the time of my death has come to me through my association with my beloved daughter in her business and through her most unusual generosity to me."

• A Victim of Jealousy (1910) • The Impalement (1910) • Sweet Memories (1911)

Rachel Wilson portrays Hennessey in episode 12 of season 15 "There's Something About Mary" (January 3, 2022), of the Canadian television period detective series Murdoch Mysteries.