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Helena Modjeska was born in Kraków, Poland on October 12, 1844, the daughter of a musician, Michael Opido.
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Helena Modjeska was born in Kraków, Poland on October 12, 1844, the daughter of a musician, Michael Opido.
She went on the stage in 1861 and won recognition as Poland's leading actress, but her health declined and in 1876 she sought to recover it in the United States.
Settling in California, she learned English and made her debut in 1877; in the same year she appeared in New York, and soon she was acknowledged, in the United States and abroad, as an actress of great distinction. Equally successful in comedy and tragedy, Modjeska played many parts, including Nora in The Doll's House, which she undertook in 1883 in an attempt to introduce Ibsen to America; but her favorite roles were Camille, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Mary Stuart, and the heroines of Shakespeare.
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Her first husband, from whose name she derived her stage name, was Gustav Modrzejewski; her second husband was Charles Bozenta Chlapowski.