Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified". She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton, and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble.
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- Sarah Siddons gave birth to seven children, five of whom she outlived:[9][37]. Henry Siddons (1774–1815), an actor and theatre manager in Edinburgh.
- This year’s Sarah Siddons Society Swell Soirée celebrated the Great American Songbook. This evening of cabaret featured some of Chicago’s most...
- Sarah Siddons as Euphrasia, in Arthur Murphy’s The Grecian Daughter, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1782. Sarah was tall, and her figure was striking.
- Siddons, Sarah (1755–1831). Tragic actress who, by the dramatic power of her performances and the moral rectitude of her private life, helped to raise...
- Sarah Siddons was one of the greatest English tragic actresses. She was the eldest of 12 children of Roger and Sarah Kemble, who led a troupe of traveling actors...
- ‘Mrs. Sarah Siddons, the actress’ was created in 1785 by Thomas Gainsborough in Rococo style.
- Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth. ... "A Short Article on a Lively Subject: Geltruda Rossi, Sarah Siddons, and Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth à laFuseli."
- A year later, in 1785, another portrait of Sarah Siddons was completed. The artist was Thomas Gainsborough and the tile of the work was simply Sarah Siddons.
- As a young woman of seventeen, Sarah became infatuated with William Siddons, a member of her father’s theatrical company.
- Sarah Siddons began her career in Worcester, becoming famous for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Her own life had its share of tragedy as she outlived five of her...
