Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892[1] – February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors.Onscreen she co-starred in commercially successful films with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle more than a dozen times each, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man.