page_title: Sarah Bernhardt
section_title: Roles
hierarchical_section_title: Sarah Bernhardt / Roles
context_page_description: Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress, and has often been called "the most famous actress in the history of the world". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon working in Europe and the United States. She developed a reputation as a serious actress, getting the nickname "The Divine Sarah."
context_section_description: 1862: Racine's Iphigénie in the title rôle, her debut.
  1862: Eugène Scribe's Valérie
  1862: Molière's Les Femmes Savantes
  1864: Labiche & Deslandes, Un Mari qui Lance sa Femme
  1866: T & H Cognard's La Biche aux Bois
  1866: Racine's Phèdre (as Aricie)
  1866: Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard (as Silvia)
  1867: Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (as Armande)
  1867: George Sand's Le Marquis de Villemer
  1867: Georges Sand's "François le Champi" (as Mariette)
  1868: Dumas père Kean (as Anna Damby)
  1869: Coppée's La Passant, as a male troubador (Zanetto); her first major stage success
  1870: George Sand's L'Autre
  1871: Theuriet's Jeanne-Marie
  1871: Coppée's Fais ce que Dois
  1871: Foussier and Edmond La Baronne
  1872: Bouilhet's Mademoiselle Aïssé
  1872: Hugo's Ruy Blas (as Doña Maira de Neubourg, Queen of Spain)
  1872: Dumas père Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (as Gabrielle)
  1872: Racine's Britannicus (as Junie)
  1872: Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro
  1872: Sandeau's Mademoiselle de la Seiglière
  1873: Feuillet's Dalila (as Princess Falconieri)
  1873: Ferrier's Chez l'Avocat
  1873: Racine's Andromaque
  1873: Racine's Phèdre (as Aricie)
  1873: Feuillet's Le Sphinx
  1874: Voltaire's Zaire
  1874: Racine's Phèdre (as Phèdre)
  1875: Bornier's La Fille de Roland
  Dumas fils' L'Étrangère (as Mrs. Clarkson)
  Parodi's Rome Vaincue
  1877: Hugo's Hernani (as Doña Sol)
  1879: Racine's Phèdre (as Phèdre)
  1880: Émile Augier's L'Aventurière
  1880: Legouvé & Scribe's Adrienne Lecouvreur
  1880: Meilhac & Halévy's Froufrou
  1880: Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camélias (as Maguerite)
  1882: Sardou's Fédora
  Sardou's Théodora (as Theodora, Empress of Byzantium)
  1887 : La Tosca de Victorien Sardou
  Dumas fils' La Princesse Georges
  1890: Sardou's Cléopâtre, as Cleopatra
  1893: Lemaître's Les Rois
  1894: Sardou's Gismonda
  1895: Molière's Amphytrion
  1895: Magda(translation of Sudermann's Heimat)
  1896: La Dame aux Camélias
  1896: Musset's Lorenzaccio (as Lorenzino de' Medici)
  1897: Sardou's Spiritisme
  1897: Rostand's La Samaritaine
  1898: Catulle Mendès Medée
  1898: La Dame aux Camélias (as Marguerite Gautier)
  Barbier's Jeanne d'Arc (as Joan of Arc)
  Morand & Sylvestre's Izéïl (as Izéïl)
  Shakespeare's King Lear (as Cordelia)
  1899: Shakespeare's Hamlet (as Hamlet)
  Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (as Cleopatra)
  Shakespeare's Macbeth (as Lady Macbeth) (in French)
  Richepin's Pierrot Assassin (as Pierrot)
  1900: Rostand's L'Aiglon as L'Aiglon
  1903: Sardou's La Sorcière
  1904: Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande (as Pelléas)
  1906: Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea
  1906: Mendès' La Vierge d'Avila (as Saint Theresa)
  1911: Moreau's Queen Elizabeth (as Queen Elizabeth)
  1913: Bernard's Jeanne Doré (as Jeanne Doré)
caption: Sarah Bernhardt, in a portrait, 1890s.
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