- Dubbed "The Vampire Woman" on the silent screen, she began her wicked ways on film after being noticed by producer Edward Edelston as she was walking down a hotel staircase one evening wearing a provocative backless gown.
- Valeska Suratt's entire film career which she did a total of 11 silent films are all considered to be lost as none of her films exist to this day. Because of this unfortunate circumstance, Suratt's film career has been completely forgotten overall in the annals of cinema.
- The 'flapper age' put an end to her obsolete vampy style and she was forced to retire. Out of the public eye by the late 30s, she is now all but forgotten.
- She was tall compared to most women of the era, standing 5 feet, 8 inches in her stocking feet. She had chestnut brown hair, gray-blue eyes, full lips, a broad forehead and an oval face.
- Appeared in vaudeville with Billy Gould.
- A member of the Bahá'í Faith.
- She only appeared in 11 movies, mostly as vamps and seductress types, between 1915 and 1917. William Fox had purchased the film rights to "A Fool There Was" about a young diplomat seduced and ruined by a woman only known as "The Vampire." Fox considered and rejected Suratt for the part and then chose Theda Bara. The role launched Bara into super-stardom as a "vamp" and relegated Suratt to similar parts in lesser films.
- Her 11 movies from the silent era period were all lost in the 9 July, 1937 fire of 20th Century Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey.
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