"she escape. Packer argued that Ophelia's problems stem from being too dutiful a daughter as she obeys her father in rejecting Hamlet and returning his gifts to him, as she is untrue to herself, thus settling herself up for her downfall. Ophelia has been portrayed on screen since the days of early silent films. Dorothy Foster played Ophelia opposite Charles Raymond's Hamlet in the 1912 film ""Hamlet"". Jean Simmons played Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier's Oscar-winning Hamlet performance in 1948; Simmons was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. More recently, Ophelia has been portrayed by Anastasiya Vertinskaya"
"her a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. The first was as Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's ""Hamlet"" (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. The second was in the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer, in Tim Blake Nelson's ""O"" (2001), a version of ""Othello"" set at a boarding school. Neither film was a great success; ""O"" was subject to many delays and a change of distributors, and ""Hamlet"" was an art house film shot on a minimal budget. Stiles's next commercial success was in ""Save the Last Dance"" (2001) as"
"15, 2008, aged 88. Hanna Hertelendy Hanna Hertelendy (October 5, 1919 – May 15, 2008), aka Hanna Landy, was a Hungarian-American film and television actress. She was born as Ilona Zimka near Budapest. She married Istvan Hertelendy in 1940. She became a successful stage actress with the Hungarian Repertory Theatre ""VIGSZINHAZ"" in Budapest, playing such roles as Ophelia (""Hamlet""), Irina (Chekhov's ""Three Sisters""), in Molnar's ""Liliom"" and in J.B. Priestley's ""An Inspector Calls"". She came to New York City and, in 1947, became a lifelong member of the Actors Studio. She continued to act on television in such series as"
"Hazel Terry Hazel Terry (born Hazel M. Neilson-Terry; 23 January 1918 – 12 October 1974) was an English actress. A member of the theatrical dynasty the Terry family she had a successful stage career, and also made some cinema films. Among her roles was Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" opposite her cousin John Gielgud. Terry was born in London, the daughter of the actor Dennis Neilson-Terry and his wife, actress Mary Glynne. Her only sibling was her sister Monica Julia Glassborow née Neilson-Terry (died 1984). Hazel's first role was at the age of 17 as the page in ""Henry IV, Part I"""
"Hanna Hertelendy Hanna Hertelendy (October 5, 1919 – May 15, 2008), aka Hanna Landy, was a Hungarian-American film and television actress. She was born as Ilona Zimka near Budapest. She married Istvan Hertelendy in 1940. She became a successful stage actress with the Hungarian Repertory Theatre ""VIGSZINHAZ"" in Budapest, playing such roles as Ophelia (""Hamlet""), Irina (Chekhov's ""Three Sisters""), in Molnar's ""Liliom"" and in J.B. Priestley's ""An Inspector Calls"". She came to New York City and, in 1947, became a lifelong member of the Actors Studio. She continued to act on television in such series as ""Peter Gunn"", ""Perry Mason"","
"Ophelia in Thomas' ""Hamlet"" under Thomas Beecham at the opening of the 1910 winter season at Covent Garden. In 1917 she appeared as Desdemona in Verdi's ""Otello"" with Frank Mullings in the title role and Frederic Austin as Iago. Beecham described her portrayal of Desdemona as ""the best I have seen on any stage."" Her other roles in London included Olympia in Offenbach's ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", Zerlina in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", and Marguerite in Gounod's ""Faust"". Her last appearance there was in 1922. Other venues included the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1920 (in the title role of ""Lakmé"" by"
"in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. In 1935 he appeared in the historical play ""Mary Tudor"". He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of ""Hamlet"", in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilised with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including ""Major Barbara"" (1941) and ""Great Expectations"" (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s."
"her to pursue an acting career more seriously: Simmons had support roles in ""Hungry Hill"" (1947) with Margaret Lockwood and the Powell-Pressburger film ""Black Narcissus"" (1947), playing an Indian in the latter alongside Sabu. Simmons was top-billed for the first time in a drama, ""Uncle Silas"" (1947). She followed it with ""The Woman in the Hall"" (1947). Neither of those films were particularly successful. But Simmons was then in a huge international hit, playing Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's ""Hamlet"" (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. Olivier offered her the chance to work and study at the Bristol"
"at Elsinore, where Shakespeare located the play. Olivier secured the casting of Leigh to replace Cherry Cottrell as Ophelia. Because of torrential rain the performance had to be moved from the castle courtyard to the ballroom of a local hotel, but the tradition of playing Hamlet at Elsinore was established, and Olivier was followed by, among others, Gielgud (1939), Redgrave (1950), Richard Burton (1954), Derek Jacobi (1979), Kenneth Branagh (1988) and Jude Law (2009). Back in London, the company staged ""Macbeth"", with Olivier in the title role. The stylised production by Michel Saint-Denis was not well liked, but Olivier had"
"Judi Dench filmography Dame Judi Dench is an English actress who has worked in theater, television, and film. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in ""Hamlet"", Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"". She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Over the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre"
"raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She appeared in productions of the University of Wisconsin High School and in summer stock productions of the Wisconsin Players. She studied acting briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1936. After spending one semester at the University of Wisconsin, where her father was the head of the department of art history, she left for New York City in 1937. Her first professional role was as Ophelia opposite Eva Le Gallienne in the title role of ""Hamlet"" in Dennis, Massachusetts in 1937. Hagen was cast, early on, as Ophelia by the actress-manager Eva Le"
"was portrayed by actress Shraddha Kapoor. Ophelia has been a frequent subject in artwork, often in a Romantic or Classical style, as the images on this page show. Ophelia Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama ""Hamlet"". She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. As with virtually all ""Hamlet"" characters, Ophelia's name is not Danish. It first appeared in Jacopo Sannazaro's 1504 poem ""Arcadia"" (as ""Ofelia""), probably derived from Ancient Greek ὠφέλεια (""ōphéleia"", ""help""). In Ophelia's first speaking appearance in the play, she is seen"
"leanings who falls in love with her cousin, Jude (played by Christopher Eccleston). Roger Ebert believed that the part allowed Winslet to display her acting range, and praised her for the defiance she brought to the role. After unsuccessfully auditioning for Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film ""Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"", Winslet was cast for the part of Ophelia, the doomed lover of the title character, in Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Hamlet"". Winslet, at 20 years old, was intimidated by the experience of performing Shakespeare with established actors such as Branagh and Julie Christie, saying that the job required a level"
"attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. She applied and was accepted by the School, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London, where she was a classmate of Vanessa Redgrave, graduating and being awarded four acting prizes, including the Gold Medal as Outstanding Student. In September 1957, she made her first professional stage appearance with the Old Vic Company, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, as Ophelia in ""Hamlet"". According to the reviewer for ""London Evening Standard"", Dench had ""talent which will be shown to better advantage when she acquires some technique to go with it."" Dench then"
"(died 1712). She started her professional career playing some major female roles in Shakespeare's plays. She and her husband Thomas Betterton shared the stage in a production of ""Hamlet"", in which she played Ophelia, opposite to Betterton's Hamlet. In the meantime, she was also her husband's consultant and business partner. In an age when the profession of acting was often thought as notorious and indecent, and actors, both male and female were unfairly criticized as whores, the Bettertons were still regarded as respectable. They were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's ""Calisto"","
"Hamlet (Thomas) Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868 by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Paul Meurice of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". The Parisian public's fascination with Ophelia, prototype of the ""femme fragile"", began in the fall of 1827, when an English company directed by William Abbot came to Paris to give a season of Shakespeare in English at the Odéon. On 11 September 1827 the Irish actress Harriet Smithson played the part of Ophelia in ""Hamlet"". Her"
"triumph as Hamlet."" The work was premiered at the Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) on 9 March 1868. Among the noted singers in the original cast were Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet and Christine Nilsson as Ophelia. The opera was staged, sung in Italian, at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden (later the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) in June 1869, with Nilsson as Ophelia and Charles Santley as Hamlet. ""Hamlet"" was Thomas's greatest success, along with ""Mignon"", and was further staged in Leipzig, Budapest, Brussels, Prague, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna within five years of the Paris"
"her talent. After her graduation from drama school she worked at the Swedish Theatre, where she had her big star breakthrough in Sweden as Ophelia in ""Hamlet"", opposite Schanke in the title role, in 1924. She remained in the theatre's ensemble until its tragic burn-down in 1925. Most notable for her many female leads in Shakespeare and Strindberg plays, star performances by Tidblad on stage include her Ophelia in Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", Billie Moore in ""Broadway"", the Angel in ""Cenodoxus"", Aude in ""Graven under triumfbågen"", Anna Boleyn in ""Henry VIII"", Juliet in Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"", Ellen in ""Älskling jag ger"
"Ophelia (2018 film) Ophelia is a 2018 British-American historical romantic drama film directed by Claire McCarthy and written by Semi Chellas, based on the Shakespearean character of the same name and the novel by Lisa Klein. The film stars Daisy Ridley as the titular character, with Naomi Watts, Clive Owen and George MacKay in supporting roles. The film follows the story of ""Hamlet"", as told by Ophelia's perspective. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) is the most trusted lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Naomi Watts). She soon captures the attention of Prince Hamlet (George MacKay)"
"a cocktail party. Rickman encouraged her to audition for London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she was accepted in 1975. Upon graduating from RADA in 1977, Eichhorn immediately began rehearsals for the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, playing Ophelia in ""Hamlet"". This was followed by a wide range of regional work, including ""Stop the World - I Want to Get Off"" for the Queen's Theatre, Rosalind in ""As You Like It"" at the Bolton Octagon, ""The Wings of the Dove"" for the BBC, and ""The Fatal Weakness"" opposite Elaine Stritch at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. In December 1977, Eichhorn met"
"Olivier ""won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O'Hara. Wait and see."" Despite her relative inexperience, Leigh was chosen to play Ophelia to Olivier's Hamlet in an Old Vic Theatre production staged at Elsinore, Denmark. Olivier later recalled an incident when her mood rapidly changed as she was preparing to go onstage. Without apparent provocation, she began screaming at him before suddenly becoming silent and staring into space. She was able to perform without mishap, and by the following day she had returned to normal with no recollection of the event. It was the first time Olivier witnessed"
"a school which is fast disappearing"". A testimonial production of ""Hamlet"" was mounted at the Metropolitan Opera House on 21 May 1888, to celebrate the life and accomplishments of an ageing Lester Wallack, and to raise money to ease the chronic sciatica that arrested his career. ""One of the greatest casts ever assembled"" was formed into a company composed of Edwards as the priest, Edwin Booth as Hamlet, Lawrence Barrett as the ghost, Frank Mayo as the king, John Gibbs Gilbert as Polonius, Rose Coghlan as the player queen and Helena Modjeska as Ophelia. Other stars made cameo appearances, and"
"others. From 1958 she had her own theatrical group. She performed more than 120 roles including Maria Stuart, Hedda Gabler, Juliet, Nora, Bernarda Alba, Electra, Antigone, Cassandra, Medea, Agauë, Iphigenia, Jocasta, etc. She played Ophelia in a 1955 production of Hamlet and Electra (directed by Spyros Evangelatos) in 1972. Her most recent appearances on stage were in the title roles in Martin Sherman's ""Rose"" in 2000 and Stephen Temperley's ""Madame Flo"" in 2011. She appeared in more than fifteen films, and also worked in radio and television, mostly in plays adaptations. She was a teacher at the National Theatre of"
"(1964), Marianne Faithfull (1969), Helena Bonham Carter (1990), Kate Winslet (1996), Julia Stiles (2000), and Mariah Gale (2009). Themes associated with Ophelia have led to movies such as ""Ophelia Learns to Swim"" (2000) and ""Dying Like Ophelia"" (2002). In many modern theatre and film adaptations she is portrayed barefoot in the mad scenes, including Kozintsev's 1964 film, Zeffirelli's 1990 film, Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film, and Michael Almereyda's ""Hamlet 2000"" (2000) versions. In the film ""Melancholia"", a scene was created where the protagonist was seen drowning in water similar with Ophelia's last fate. In Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation ""Haider"" (2014), the character"
"first major stage role came in 1992 when she appeared opposite Peter O'Toole in ""Our Song"" at the Apollo Theatre. She has alternated between stage and screen for almost two decades, with frequent theatre roles. In 1995, she starred as Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes in ""Hamlet"" at London's Almeida Theatre, which led to her American stage debut. The production transferred across the Atlantic and played more than 90 performances on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. Since then she has played Antigone in a national UK tour and Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" at the Bristol"
"Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays, in such roles as Ophelia in ""Hamlet"", Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"", and Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"". Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer. She drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical ""Cabaret"" in 1968. Over the next two decades,"
"percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic gave it a positive 65% percent rating. Ophelia (2018 film) Ophelia is a 2018 British-American historical romantic drama film directed by Claire McCarthy and written by Semi Chellas, based on the Shakespearean character of the same name and the novel by Lisa Klein. The film stars Daisy Ridley as the titular character, with Naomi Watts, Clive Owen and George MacKay in supporting roles. The film follows the story of ""Hamlet"", as told by Ophelia's perspective. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) is the most trusted lady-in-waiting to"
"Tselikovskaya and Zharov, where the 8-year old played Svetochka. In 1958, after graduating the Shchepkin's Theatre College, Nemolyaeva joined the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, then, after just one season moved to the Mayakovsky Theatre where she remained for the rest of her life. One of her first successes there was the part of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s ""Hamlet"", produced by the then theatre's director Nikolai Okhlopkov. Later, as Andrey Goncharov came to become the head of the theatre, she created several outstanding characters, notably Blanche in Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and the Mayoress Anna Andreevna in Nikolai Gogol’s ""Revizor""."
"Stella Gonet Stella Gonet (born 8 May 1960) is a Scottish theatre, film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC dramas ""The House of Eliott"" (1991–94) and ""Holby City"" (2007–09). Her stage credits include playing Ophelia in the 1989 National Theatre revival of ""Hamlet"", opposite both Daniel Day-Lewis and Ian Charleston as Hamlet, and playing Margaret Thatcher in the original West End production of ""Handbagged"" (2014). Gonet was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Her Scottish mother and Polish father met when her father was stationed in Greenock during the Second World War. She is the"
"acted in two productions by Sir Robert Atkins at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, where she played Titania in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" with Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Leslie French, and Greer Garson as an uncredited extra; in ""The Tempest"" she was Miranda to John Drinkwater's Prospero, with Leslie French as Ariel and Atkins as Caliban. Pamela Stanley appeared as Queen Victoria in ""Victoria Regina"" by Laurence Housman at the Gate Theatre in 1935, and in 1936 she played Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" on Broadway with Leslie Howard. However, John Gielgud had just ended a very successful Broadway run of the same"
"ambitious main character but abandoned in his quest to emigrate from Turkey to the United States. To play the characters in the epic film, which was loosely based on his uncle's life, the director said he chose actors who were Jewish (naming Marsh among them) or Greek because ""all of them know oppression, they all have uncles from the 'Old World' and have an affectionate relationship towards their forebears."" In 1964 she played Ophelia in John Gielgud's celebrated Broadway production of ""Hamlet"" starring Richard Burton. Her Ophelia received mixed notices, but Gielgud liked her performance and resisted efforts to recast"
"Duchess of Malfi' (John Webster), Hedda in two separate productions of 'Hedda Gabler' (Henrik Ibsen), and Celestina in 'Celestina' (de Rojas; Lady Macbeth in 'Macbeth' (William Shakespeare); Anne Boleyn in 'Anne of the Thousand Days'; Millamant in 'The Way of the World' (William Congreve); Goneril in 'King Lear' (William Shakespeare); Hermione in 'The Winter's Tale' (William Shakespeare); Maria Eduarda in two different productions of her own translation/adaption of Eça de Queirós' masterpiece novel 'The Maias'); Ophelia in 'Hamlet' (William Shakespeare); Marina in 'Pericles' (William Shakespeare); Elvira in 'Blithe Spirit' (Noël Coward); Dona Madalena in 'The Pilgrim' (Almeida Garrett); Juliet in"
"Beatrice), Geraldine McEwan with ""As You Like It"", and Derek Jacobi directing Branagh in the title role in ""Hamlet"", with Sophie Thompson as Ophelia. Critic Milton Shulman of the London ""Evening Standard"" wrote: ""On the positive side Branagh has the vitality of Olivier, the passion of Gielgud, the assurance of Guinness, to mention but three famous actors who have essayed the role. On the negative side, he has not got the magnetism of Olivier, nor the mellifluous voice quality of Gielgud nor the intelligence of Guinness."" A year later in 1989 Branagh co-starred with Emma Thompson in the Renaissance revival"