Born in the United States, Lillian Gisch's family was not very well off when she was a child, her father was an alcoholic who ignored the family, her mother was a stage actor, and in order to maintain the family's life, her mother took her and her sister out to perform very early.
In 1912, Lillian Gish's pure and classical temperament was valued by the famous director and producer David Griffiths, when the film industry was also just emerging, most of the actors' acting skills were exaggerated, and Lilian Gish had the appearance and temperament of the ideal actor that David needed, so David began to cultivate her.
Later, Lilian Gisch, who was reused, starred in films such as "The Birth of a Nation", "The Party Fights Against the Different", "The Woman Saves the Country", and "The Wind". On the screen, she always plays a small family jasper, a poor girl, and she is also known as "America's first sweetheart" and "the first lady on the screen".
Lillian Gisch is also very serious about filming, it is reported that once when she was filming the movie "Bohemian Girl", in order to fit the sick side of the heroine in the play, she used hunger strikes to show weakness, and when the director filmed the scene where the heroine died, the director even suspected that she was really dead, which was a big shock.
After the 1920s and 1930s, with the birth of sound films, Lilian Gisch gradually withdrew from the screen. Born from the heart, she herself has always been very simple and kind, and the nobleman David Griffiths, who had previously supported her, lived in embarrassment in her later years due to her career failure, and she took care of David until her death after she knew.
Lillian Gisch never married, but her life had a great influence on future generations. After her death, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in honor of her, screened at least one of her films or TV series on her birthday (October 14) each year.