Ada Rehan
Ada Rehan (April 22, 1859 - January 9, 1916) was an American actress.
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[edit] Biography
She was born as Ada Crehan in County Limerick, Ireland, and brought to the United States at about the age of six years.
Her acting career began early with some minor parts as a child, then her activities increased in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Mrs. Drew's theatre from 1873 to 1875.
Subsequently, she appeared in Baltimore, Albany, and other cities with John W. Albaugh's company. When Augustin Daly opened his New York theatre in 1879, she joined his company, and continued to work with Daly until his death twenty years later. Ada Rehan was widely admired in Europe, having acted in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Stratford-on-Avon.[1]
Miss Rehan was the model for a solid silver statue of Justice that was presented as part of the State of Montana's mining exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. [2]
She retired from the stage in 1906 and made New York City her home until her death there in 1916.
[edit] Roles
- Rosalind in As You Like It
- Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew
- Viola in Twelfth Night
- Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal
- Valentine Osprey in The Railroad of Love
- Peggy in The Country Girl
- Kate Verity in The Squire
- Nancy Brasher in Nancy and Company
- Maid Marian in Tennyson's Foresters
- Roxanne in Daly's presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac
She also played the principal female characters in:[3]
- Cinderella at School
- Needles and Pins
- A Wooden Spoon
- After Business Hours
- Our English Friend
[edit] References
- ^ Eaton, Walter Prichard (1910). The American Stage of Today. New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son.
- ^ Appelbaum, Stanley (1980). The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc..
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"Rehan, Ada". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
[edit] Publications
- William Winter, Ada Rehan: A Study (limited edition, New York, 1891)
- William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (New York, 1892)
- L. C. Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America (Boston, 1899)
- Norman Hapgood, The Stage in America, 1897-1900 (New York, 1901)
- William Winter, The Wallet of Time, volume ii (New York, 1913)
