Sarah Bernhardt
Birthday
1844/10/23
Day of death
1923/03/26 (78 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know as
Henriette-Rosine Bernard
Biography
Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard, 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Victor Hugo praised her "golden voice". Bernhardt made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of t...Read more
Acting
(1938) Great Actresses of the Past
as (archive footage)
(1915) Those of Our Land
as Self
(1915) Jeanne Doré
as Jeanne Doré
(1931) Stars of Yesterday
as Self
(1924) The Clairvoyant
as Madame Gainard
(1912) Queen Elizabeth
as Queen Elizabeth I
(1948) Paris 1900
as Self (archive footage)
(1900) Le duel d'Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1916) Mothers of France
as Jeanne d'Urbex
(1931) The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1912) Camille
as Marguerite Gauthier
(1900) Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
as ---
(1950) The Century Is Fifty
as Self (archive footage)
(1913) Adrienne Lecouvreur
as Adrienne Lecouvreur
(1919) It Happened in Paris
as Herself
(1995) Le Cinéma de grand-père
as Self (archive footage)
(2023) Sarah Bernhardt, With Heart and Soul
as Self, Archive
(1917) Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1917
as ---
(2025) weiß ihrer Augen
as (Archivmaterial)