Zélie Hadamard

Zélie Hadamard (September 30, 1849 – October 5, 1902) was a French actress.

Biography

Zélie Hadamard was born into a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria, in 1849. Her father, , was a noted Arabist who died when she was six weeks old. Her first cousin was mathematician Jacques Hadamard, and her uncle was painter .

She went to Paris and passed at the Conservatoire, where she studied under tragedian Pierre-François Beauvallet. She made her stage début at the Odéon. After playing in Brussels and Rouen she returned to Paris, where she appeared at several theatres. At the Odéon, and later the Comédie-Française, she filled and created many important parts, especially in classic tragedy.

She died in October 1902 due to complications from surgery, at the age of 53.

Roles

1879: Mademoiselle Danton in Camille Desmoulins by Emile Moreau 1879: Sabine in Gros bonnets de Krœhwinckel by Kotzebue, translated by Gustave Bertrand 1879: Fleur de lys and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris by Paul Foucher, adapted from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 1879: Martha in L'Inquisition by Gélis 1880: Andrée in Les Mouchards by Jules Moinaux and Paul Parfait 1882: Louise Baudoin in L'Incendiaire by Benjamin Antier and Alexis Decomberousse 1882: Cécile Tussaud in La grande Iza by Alexis Bouvier and William Bertrand Busnach 1882: Mimi in La vie de Bohême 1883: Adrienne de Reuilly in Le mariage d'André by Hippolyte Lemaire and Philippe Rouvre 1883: Mademoiselle de Romanet in Le mariage de Racine by Guillaume Livet and Gustave Vautrey 1883: Phèdre in Phèdre by Jean Racine 1885: Vivette in L'Arlésienne by Alphonse Daudet 1887: Andromaque by Jean Racine