From Wikipedia Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British actress. Born at Wigan, Lancashire, she was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She also had bit parts in films such as Jamaica Inn (1939) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). She died in London, England on 9 May 1951.