Patience Cooper (1902–1993) was an India born Indian film actress. She was the daughter of Phoebe Stella Gamble born in Calcutta in 1881 (daughter of John Frederick Gamble and Phoebe Stella Clement whose mother was Armenian )and James Alfred Cooper .An Anglo-Indian from Calcutta, Cooper had a successful career in both silent and sound films. She was one of the early superstars of Bollywood. Cooper is credited with the first double roles of Indian cinema—as twin sisters in and as mother and daughter in , even though earlier in 1917, actor Anna Salunke had played roles of both the male lead character Ram and the female lead character Seeta in the film Lanka Dahan.