1. Ada Rehan was born Bidelia Crehan in Limerick city, Ireland, one of five siblings born to Thomas Crehan and Harriet Ryan Crehan.
16 Facts About Ada Rehan
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Ada Rehan was baptised in St Michael's Roman Catholic Church on 12 June 1857.
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Ada Rehan's appearance was competent enough that her family decided she should continue pursuing a career in the theatre.
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Ada Rehan then went to Louisville to join the stock company of Macauley's Theatre, where she remained one season.
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Ada Rehan was performing in one of Daly's own plays, Pique, produced by New York's Grand Opera House and starring Fanny Davenport when the successful theatre manager Augustin Daly first took note of her in April 1879.
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Later that year, when he opened his third New York theatre, Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, Ada Rehan joined his company.
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Ada Rehan would continue to work with Daly until his death twenty years later, but their relationship, though marked by enormous professional success for both, was a turbulent one.
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Ada Rehan was part of Daly's company, known as the "Big Four".
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Ada Rehan's soul is given to her profession, and the nature of the woman herself is discerned in that of the character that she represents.
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Ada Rehan was so popular in the 1880s and '90s that she played over 200 parts.
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Ada Rehan returned with a production of Sweet Nell of Old Drury and a tour that revived some of her classic roles from her career with Daly's company.
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However, the staleness that Ada Rehan's performances had become susceptible to as the 1890s wore on was even more evident in these post-Daly productions.
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Ada Rehan lived out her remaining years between her homes in New York and the English coast.
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Ada Rehan died from arteriosclerosis and cancer at Roosevelt Hospital in New York in 1916.
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Ada Rehan was widely admired in both America and Europe, having acted in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Stratford-on-Avon.
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Ada Rehan was the model for a solid silver statue of Justice that was presented as part of the State of Montana's mining exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.