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
She played Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth but - to her lifelong regret - never got to play Cleopatra.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2022
She starred as Clytemnestra in a BBC miniseries adaptation of Sophocles' "Oresteia" in 1979, and she starred in an adaptation of "Hedda Gabler" for English television in 1981.
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020
She became famous for her electrifying portrayals of history and literature’s most unconventional women: Queen Elizabeth in the British TV series “Elizabeth R,” Hedda Gabler, Gudrun in Ken Russell’s film of the D.H.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019
If she had been a robust egoist, and realised her nature to the full, she would have been a Hedda Gabler "reversed," in a word, the Hilda Wangel of The Master Builder.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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