Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg

Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg (27 October 1876 – 30 March 1976) was a Dutch stage actress of the 19th and 20th centuries. She began acting on stage in 1897 and did it professionally from 1901. Royaards-Sandberg worked for the , the Het Masker, the Amsterdam Theater Company, the Dutch Comedy, Theater, Ensemble and the Amsterdam Toneel companies.

Early life On 27 October 1876, Royaards-Sandberg was born to the soldier Johan Jacob Sandberg and Marianne Begemann in Pamekasan in the former Dutch East Indies. Following private education at a boarding school in Germany, Royaards-Sandberg was enrolled by her parents at the boarding school in Driebergen in January 1892. She left the boarding school and went back to the family home in March 1893 and enrolled in private lessons in French, Italian and violin. and the Amsterdam School of Vocal and Dramatic Art to read from the age of 20 and was tutored by and André Jolles. She took the advice of Jolles and took acting lessons at the Comédie-Française in Paris.

Legacy Johan de Meester in Het Parool wrote of Royaards-Sandberg that he felt "the great merit of Jacqueline Royaards is that she played a major role in a period when there was a clear change in taste in the stage" and that the actress had "matured as an actress at a higher age, much more humane" to become in his view "a much more pleasant actress". Anton Koolhaas in Vrij Nederland wrote noted the actress attracted praise when she aged as "Not only because her playing became more simple, but especially because her whole style of playing became internalized to such an extent that her 'presence' already had an aura that needed very little addition of 'play' and typing."