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Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of Shakespearean characters.
Aldridge was the daughter of actor Ira Aldridge and self-styled Swedish countess Amanda von Brandt. [5] She was named after Ira Aldridge's mother, Luranah. Her sister was British opera singer and composer Amanda Ira Aldridge. As Luranah's rheumatism grew worse, Amanda cared for her and described Luranah in 1921 as "very helpless". [3]
The family's home on the Howard campus stood on the present site of the Ira Aldridge Theatre. The elder Gregory was instrumental in acquiring the first significant Congressional endowment for Howard. In 1897, the James Monroe Gregory family left Washington, D.C. for Bordentown, New Jersey , where Professor Gregory took the helm of the ...
Born into an artistic family, the Aldridge legacy included her father who was a successful African-American Shakespearian actor, Ira Frederick Aldridge. He was dubbed the ‘African Roscius' when he first starred as Othello at the Royalty Theatre in London. Her mother, Amanda Brandt, was a Swedish opera singer.
On 21 August 1865 Wingfield was at the Haymarket Theatre Roderigo to the Othello of Ira Aldridge, the Iago of Walter Montgomery, and the Desdemona of Madge Robertson.He had previously played in the burlesque Ixion (F. C. Burnand).
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
He also played Claude Melnotte in The Lady of Lyons, King John, Shylock, and Iago to the Othello of Ira Aldridge; and was the original Lorenzo in Fra Angelo, a tragedy in blank verse, by William Clark Russell, the not very successful experiment closing on 9 November. [1] In November 1866 Helen Faucit began a twelve nights' engagement at Drury Lane.
Based on author Paul Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World, the nature of the threat and the decision the family—Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, and Kristen Cui—have to make ...