Hedda Gabler
Americannoun
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Your castmate, Nina Hoss, said the role of Hedda Gabler is for women actors what Hamlet is for men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Olsen: You yourself have played the role of Hedda Gabler onstage in Germany.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
She played Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth but - to her lifelong regret - never got to play Cleopatra.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
Ms. Rigg returned to television, largely in more serious roles than before, among them Clytemnestra, Hedda Gabler, Regan in “King Lear” and Lady Dedlock in “Bleak House.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
I believe if Hedda Gabler had hesitated and her father's pistol hadn't been hard by, she would have recovered her poise and deceived her husband.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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