Eleonora Duse
Italian actress
Eleonora Duse (born Oct. 3, 1858, near or in Vigevano, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]ādied April 21, 1924, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.) was an Italian actress who found her great interpretive roles in the heroines of the Italian playwright Gabriele DāAnnunzio and of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Most of Duseās family were actors who played in the same touring troupe, and she made her first stage appearance at the age of four in a...