Zelma Hedin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Zelma Hedin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Zelma Carolina Esolinda Hedin née Bergnéhr (Stockholm, 31 May 1827

â€" Stockholm, 11 February 1874) was a Swedish stage actress. She was

an elite actress of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she belonged to

the star actors in the mid 19th-century. She was also known as Zelma

Bergnéhr, Zelma Kinmansson and Zelma Bergmansson.Zelma Hedin was born

in Stockholm to the lieutenant customs inspector Carl Vilhelm

Bergnéhr (1803-47) and Charlotta Vilhelmina Christina Philp

(1799-1871). She was the sister of the opera singer Leocadi

Bergnéhr-Fossmo, the half sister of the star actress Gurli Åberg,

and the cousin of the actress Laura Bergnéhr (d. 1852), known as the

mistress of Charles XV of Sweden.Zelma Hedin was enrolled in the

Dramatens elevskola in 1840, made her debut at the Royal Dramatic

Theatre 8 December 1842, and was contracted as an actress there

between 1845 and 1868 (from 1852 as a premier actress).Zelma Hedin

made a success in the French salon comedies, a very popular and

fashionable genre of the time, in which she was seen as the successor

of Emilie Högquist, and she gradually replaced Charlotta Almlöf in

coquette roles. According to a critic, while Charlotta Almlöf had

always been shallow and superficial in seduction scenes, for Hedin

"...flirtatiousness seemed to me to be a profession". She was famed

for the elegance of her costume which was called "truly Parisian", was

said to have "a grande and beautiful figure", and critics claimed that

she attracted attention more for her appearance than for her ability

and characterized her popular romantic roles as a "hallow

declamation". She was however recognized as "an excellent utility, en

rare representative of the socialite ladies of the finer French

comedy, a terrific grisette and soubrette..." and as a singer well

suited for vaudeville.
Zelma Hedin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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