- Marie Vernier
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Marie Vernier, or Venier, (floruit 1590 - 1627), was a French actress and theatre director.
She was married to the actor Valleran-Lecomte (fl. 1590-1615) and the leading lady and co-director of his theatre company, which performed in Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris and toured the country and Spanish Netherlands. Vernier is confirmed to have performed in Paris from at least 1604 onwards. She was foremost a tragedienne. Marie Vernier was the first French actress known to have performed in Paris and the first more known actress. Marie Ferré is the first known name of a female actor in France, from a contract in 1545; the first confirmed time actresses performed in France was unnamed Italian actresses performing at the French court in 1548. Vernier is one of few French actresses known of her time; by contemporary actresses was Rachel Trepau, active in the 1610s, and Isabel Legendre, who in 1617-1618 is known to have toured with her spouse's company in France and Spanish Netherlands. Marie Vernier is last mentioned in 1627.
References
- The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
- WOMEN AND THE STAGE an address by Helena Modjeska
- Transnational exchange in early modern theater By Robert Henke, Eric Nicholson
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Marie Venier
Categories:- 16th-century French people
- 16th-century actors
- 17th-century French people
- 17th-century actors
- French theatre directors
- French stage actors
- 16th-century births
- 17th-century deaths
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