ACTOR

Sarah Bernhardt

1844 - 1923

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Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 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, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Bernhardt has received more than 2,837,282 page views. Her biography is available in 158 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 150 in 2019). Sarah Bernhardt is the 17th most popular actor (up from 34th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from France (up from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Actor.

Sarah Bernhardt was a French actress who was most famous for her dramatic roles on stage.

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  • 10.70

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  • 5.40

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 17 out of 13,578. Before her are Robert De Niro, Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Marlene Dietrich, Amitabh Bachchan, and Anthony Quinn. After her are Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Bette Davis, Louis de Funès, Marlon Brando, and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 3. Before her are Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Benz. After her are Anatole France, Paul Verlaine, Mehmed V, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernadette Soubirous, Henri Rousseau, Ilya Repin, Umberto I of Italy, and Mary Cassatt. Among people deceased in 1923, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 3. Before her are Wilhelm Röntgen, and Gustave Eiffel. After her are Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, and Joaquín Sorolla.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 60 out of 6,770. Before her are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Romain Rolland (1866), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Charles Perrault (1628), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780). After her are Francis I of France (1494), Claudius (-10), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Louis Philippe I (1773), Louis de Funès (1914), and Michel Foucault (1926).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 3. Before her are Alain Delon (1935), and Brigitte Bardot (1934). After her are Louis de Funès (1914), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean Marais (1913), Jean Gabin (1904), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Philippe Noiret (1930), and Gérard Philipe (1922).

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Television and Movie Roles

Le duel d'Hamlet
Hamlet
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of the screen, and in the background, next to a painted backdrop.
May 21o 19005.3 / 10
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth I
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Aug 16o 19124.2 / 10
Those of Our Land
elle-même
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Nov 22o 19156 / 10