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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts.
- February 18, 1876 (aged 59), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- July 23, 1816, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Actress
Charlotte Cushman Broke Barriers on Her Way to Becoming the A-List Actress of the 1800s. In the role of a lifetime, the queer performer was one of the first practitioners of ‘method’ acting.
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Nov 14, 2022 · Cushman encouraged her sister, Susan, to become an actress as well and to play Juliet alongside Charlotte’s Romeo, starting in December 1845 on the London stage. The unconventional idea of two ...
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Charlotte Cushman was born in Boston July 23, 1816, to Mary Saunders Cushman and Elkanah Cushman, a descendant of Robert Cushman, one of the first Pilgrims.Her father was a poor boy from Plymouth who walked to Boston to make his fortune.
New-York Historical Society. July 20, 2020. in Women at the Center. Uncovering “Lady Romeo:” A Q&A about Charlotte Cushman with Biographer Tana Wojczuk. Born in 1816, Charlotte Cushman rose to fame as a dramatic Shakespearean actress, enthralling audiences on two continents. Some of her greatest fans included President Abraham Lincoln, Walt ...
Oct 22, 2014 · Actress Charlotte Cushman was a 19th-century theatrical icon, so famous and beloved that, like Madonna or Beyoncé today, newspapers called her by just her first name: she was “Our Charlotte.” But her fame was not for conventionally Victorian feminine portrayals.
Oct 25, 2021 · October 25, 2021. The buskers’ cries followed Charlotte Cushman as she passed under the obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo, the People’s Square. Turning onto the Via del Corso, Rome’s busiest thoroughfare, she passed into the shade of candy-colored buildings that rose on either side. By the time Charlotte and her friends moved there in 1852 ...
