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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". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sarah Bernhardt is the 27th most popular actor (down from 17th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from France (down from 60th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Actor.

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

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 27 out of 13,578. Before her are Jean-Paul Belmondo, Patrick Swayze, Louis de Funès, Jackie Chan, Mary Pickford, and Amitabh Bachchan. After her are Sean Connery, Yul Brynner, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Claudia Cardinale, and Jack Nicholson.

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Among people born in 1844, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 3. Before her are Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Benz. After her are Anatole France, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, Ilya Repin, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Menelik II. 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, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 112 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis the Pious (778), Pope Urban V (1310), Pope Clement VI (1291), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Pope John XXII (1244). After her are Marquis de Sade (1740), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Anatole France (1844), François Mitterrand (1916), and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Sarah Bernhardt ranks 5. Before her are Alain Delon (1935), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), and Louis de Funès (1914). After her are Gérard Depardieu (1948), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Jean Marais (1913), Jean Gabin (1904), Jean Renoir (1894), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), and Fernandel (1903).

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