Helena Modrzejewska: Who Was She? The Polish Theater Actress is honored in today’s Google Doodle.
Helena Modrzejewska: Who Was She? The Polish Theater Actress is honored in today’s Google Doodle. The Google Doodle for Tuesday, October 12 honors Helena Modrzejewska (also known as Helena Modjeska), a late Polish actress who was widely regarded as one of America’s greatest Shakespearean stage performers of the late nineteenth century. Jadwiga Benda was born on this day in 1840 in Krakow, Poland, and would have celebrated her 181st birthday today. approximately 300 distinct parts in over 6,000 plays, both in Polish and English, with performances in over 300 cities around the world. In 1861, she made her stage debut in The White Camellia, a one-act farce. While she was well-received by reviewers and spectators in Poland’s largest cities, the actress thought that the scale of the country’s modest theaters hampered her entire range of skill. According to a 2010 piece in the Theatre Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the actress left the Warsaw Imperial Theater in July 1876, a