| Zélie Hadamard | |
| Birth Date: | 30 September 1849 |
| Birth Place: | Oran, French Algeria |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Burial Place: | Montparnasse Cemetery[1] |
Zélie Hadamard (September 30, 1849 – October 5, 1902) was a French actress.
Zélie Hadamard was born into a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria, in 1849. Her father,, was a noted Arabist who died whe she was six weeks old. Her first cousin was mathematician Jacques Hadamard, and her uncle was painter .[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] [5]