Wanda-Marie-Émilie Rutkowska was born in Paris, the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants. H. C. "Nécrologie" Revue universelle (Paris 1902): 429. She studied comedy at the Conservatoire de Paris with Gustave Worms.Sterling Heilig, "The Jewel-Spangled Beauties of Paris" New York Press (January 11, 1903): 3.Cecil Nicholson, "The Stage" The Academy and Literature (29 September 1894): 238.
