The Lupino family (Italian: [luˈpiːno]) is a British theatre family which traces its roots to an Italian émigré of the early 17th century. The "Lupino" name is derived from two unrelated families:[1]
- the original Luppino or Lupino family, seventeenth century emigres from Italy to England
- the later Hook family, which assumed the Lupino surname.
Actress and director Ida Lupino (1918–1995) and theatre and movie actor, dancer, singer, acrobat and author Lupino Lane (Henry George Lupino, 1892–1959), descend from the Hook line.
Several of the Hook family adopted the surname Lane from Sarah Lane, the director of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, to whom they were related.
- ^ "The name Lupino was not the family name, but was adopted by George Hook (1820–1902) who appropriated the name Lupino – his one-time partner. (George Barry Lupino) Barry's family history adopted the antecedents of the real Italian Luppino and grafted them onto the Hook family tree." taken from: Pantomime, A Story in Pictures:(Theatrical History collection, 1973)