Helena Modjeska

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Helena Modjeska

She was born in Cracow, in Poland, on 12 October 1840. She died on 8 April 1909

Her real name was Helena Modrzejewska but she changed it. It was Helena Modjeska. Modjeska’s mother was Józefa Benda, the widow of Szymon Benda.

Emigration

In July 1876 Modjeska and her husband chose to emigrate to the United States.She lived there to the end of her live.

American career

On 20 August, 1877 Modjeska debuted at the California Theatre in San Francisco in

an English version of Ernest Legouvé's Adrienne Lecouvreur and also made her New York debut.

In the 1880s and 1890s she had a reputation as the leading female interpreter of Shakespeare on the American stage.

Bibliography

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