Which actress played Mina Harker in the 1931 film 'Dracula'?

Helen Chandler played Mina in the 1931 film Dracula.

The film’s character is officially named Mina Seward rather than Mina Harker, because this adaptation changes several relationships and names from Bram Stoker’s novel. Mina is Dr. Seward’s daughter, and John Harker is her fiancé. Chandler’s performance presents Mina as a young woman drawn into Dracula’s supernatural influence and later rescued by Van Helsing and Harker.

Directed by Tod Browning, Dracula was adapted primarily from the successful stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, rather than directly staging every episode of the 1897 novel. Bela Lugosi played Count Dracula, a role he had already performed on Broadway. Chandler was chosen by Browning after he remembered her work in the 1928 play The Silent House.

A common mix-up is Frances Dade, who played Lucy Weston in the same film. Gloria Holden portrayed Dracula’s daughter in the 1936 sequel Dracula’s Daughter, while Lupita Tovar appeared in the Spanish-language version produced alongside Browning’s English film.