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Match the 19th century actor to the description. Ira Aldridge Eleonora Duse Sarah Bernhardt Edwin Booth

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Ira Aldridge -D. African-American Shakespearean actor who found success internationally after he was forced out of America due to racial tensions

Ira  Aldridge was an American and later British stage actor and playwright who made his career after 1824 largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles. Born in New York City, Aldridge is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors of the English stage honoured with bronze plaques at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was especially popular in Prussia and Russia, where he received top honors from heads of state

Eleonora Duse - C. Italian actress who was known for her realistic acting style and expressive face and eyes

Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time, noted for her total assumption of the roles she portrayed.

Sarah Bernhardt - A. Eccentric and flamboyant personality, bombastic acting style, voice like a golden bell

arah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures. Several early American film stars were fawningly described as "the Bernhardt of the screen" during the silent film era.

Edwin Booth - B. famous for his portrayal of Hamlet, as well as for building his own theatre which featured cutting edge stage machinery

Edwin Thomas Booth was an American actor who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. Some theatrical historians consider him the greatest American actor, and the greatest Prince Hamlet, of the 19th century.