Zélie Hadamard
French actress
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Zélie Hadamard (September 30, 1849 – October 5, 1902) was a French actress.
Zélie Hadamard | |
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Zélie Hadamard in L'Arlésienne (1885) | |
| Born | September 30, 1849 |
| Died | October 5, 1902 (aged 53) |
Burial place | Montparnasse Cemetery[1] |
Biography
Zélie Hadamard was born into a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria, in 1849. Her father, David Hadamard, was a noted Arabist who died when she was six weeks old. Her first cousin was mathematician Jacques Hadamard, and her uncle was painter Auguste Hadamard.[2]
She went to Paris and passed at the Conservatoire, where she studied under tragedian Pierre-François Beauvallet.[3] She made her stage début at the Odéon. After playing in Brussels and Rouen she returned to Paris, where she appeared at several theatres.[4] At the Odéon, and later the Comédie-Française, she filled and created many important parts, especially in classic tragedy.
She died in October 1902 due to complications from surgery, at the age of 53.[5][6]
Roles
- 1879: Mademoiselle Danton in Camille Desmoulins by Emile Moreau[3]
- 1879: Sabine in Gros bonnets de Krœhwinckel by Kotzebue, translated by Gustave Bertrand[3]
- 1879: Fleur de lys and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris by Paul Foucher, adapted from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame[3]
- 1879: Martha in L'Inquisition by Gélis[3]
- 1880: Andrée in Les Mouchards by Jules Moinaux and Paul Parfait[3]
- 1882: Louise Baudoin in L'Incendiaire by Benjamin Antier and Alexis Decomberousse[3]
- 1882: Cécile Tussaud in La grande Iza by Alexis Bouvier and William Bertrand Busnach
- 1882: Mimi in La vie de Bohême[3]
- 1883: Adrienne de Reuilly in Le mariage d'André by Hippolyte Lemaire and Philippe Rouvre[3]
- 1883: Mademoiselle de Romanet in Le mariage de Racine by Guillaume Livet and Gustave Vautrey[3]
- 1883: Phèdre in Phèdre by Jean Racine[3]
- 1885: Vivette in L'Arlésienne by Alphonse Daudet
- 1887: Andromaque by Jean Racine
