Helena Modjeska

The year and the place of birth

She was born on 12th of October 1840 in Cracow, was a renowned actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

Emigration

In July 1876, after spending more than a decade as the reigning diva of the Polish national theater, for reasons both personal and political, Modjeska and her husband chose to emigrate to the United States. Died on the 8th of April, 1909 (aged 68) Newport Beach, California.

Modjeska's chief tragic roles were:

o William Shakespeare: o Ophelia, in Hamlet; o Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet;o Desdemona, in Othello; o Queen Anne, in Richard III.

o Nora, in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House o Louisa Millero Friedrich Schiller’s Maria Stuart and Princess Ebolio Marion Delorme, in Victor Hugo’s Marion Delormeo Victor Hugo Tisbéo Juliusz Słowacki’s Maria Stuart and Mazeppa

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Modjeska

Autors

Dominika Narczyk, Weronika Rębkowska