From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ada Rehan
Ada Rehan
Miss Rehan was the model for a solid silver statue of
Justice that was presented as part of the State of Mon-
tana’s mining exhibition at the World’s Columbian Expo-
sition 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.
Ada Rehan
Roles
Ada Rehan in 1897 • Rosalind in As You Like It
• Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew
Ada Rehan (April 22, 1859 - January 9, 1916) was an • Viola in Twelfth Night
American actress. • Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal
• Valentine Osprey in The Railroad of Love
Biography • Peggy in The Country Girl
• Kate Verity in The Squire
She was born as Ada Crehan in County Limerick, Ireland, • Nancy Brasher in Nancy and Company
and brought to the United States at about the age of six • Maid Marian in Tennyson’s Foresters
years. • Roxanne in Daly’s presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac
Her acting career began early with some minor parts She also played the principal female characters in: [3]
as a child, then her activities increased in Philadelphia, • Cinderella at School
Pennsylvania at Mrs. Drew’s theatre from 1873 to 1875. • Needles and Pins
Subsequently, she appeared in Baltimore, Albany, and • A Wooden Spoon
other cities with John W. Albaugh’s company. When Au- • After Business Hours
gustin Daly opened his New York theatre in 1879, she • Our English Friend
joined his company, and continued to work with Daly un-
til his death twenty years later. Ada Rehan was widely ad-
mired in Europe, having acted in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, References
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Stratford-on-Avon.[1] [1] Eaton, Walter Prichard (1910). The American Stage of
Today. New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ada Rehan
[2] Appelbaum, Stanley (1980). The Chicago Worlds Fair
of 1893: A Photographic Record. New York, NY: Dover
External links
Publications, Inc.. • Ada Rehan at Findagrave
[3] "Rehan, Ada". Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American • Ada Rehan photo gallery at NYPL
Biography. 1900. Persondata
Name Rehan, Ada
Publications Alternative names
• William Winter, Ada Rehan: A Study (limited edition, Short description
New York, 1891) Date of birth April 22, 1859
• William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (New York, 1892)
Place of birth
• L. C. Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America
(Boston, 1899) Date of death January 9, 1916
• Norman Hapgood, The Stage in America, 1897-1900 Place of death
(New York, 1901)
• William Winter, The Wallet of Time, volume ii (New
York, 1913)
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Categories:
• 1859 births
• 1916 deaths
• American stage actors
• Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
• Naturalized citizens of the United States
• People from County Limerick
• People from New York City
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