Career
She began appearing in motion pictures in the early 1910s, billed as Mrs. Costello, and appeared opposite such actors as John Bunny, Flora Finch, Wallace Reid, Florence Turner, Antonio Moreno and Clara Kimball Young, as well as her husband and daughters.
In 1929, Mae Costello died of heart disease and was interred at the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California, which is a Catholic cemetery. Her daughter Dolores would marry actor John Barrymore, a marriage that neither Mae nor ex husband approved of, as Barrymore was not only over twenty years older than Dolores, he was also six months older than Mae Costello. Her grandson includes actor John Drew Barrymore and her great-granddaughter is actress Drew Barrymore.
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