Elsa MacFarlane was born on 23 May 1899 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Co-Optimists (1929). She was married to Clifford A F Whitley. She died in 1972 in Sussex, England, UK.
She acted in George and Ira Gershwin's musical, "Tell Me More," at the Winter Garden Theatre in London, England with Heather Thatcher, Leslie Henson, Arthur Margetson, Ada Palmer, Claude Hulbert, Vera Lennox, Sylvia Hawkes, Muriel Barnby, George De Warfaz, Guy Fane, and Ernest Graham in the cast.