Irène Vernal (14 July 1912 – September 2008) was a Belgian

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. She was born in

Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...

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. She played at the Rideau de Bruxelles and at the National Theater of Belgium. She was awarded as the Eve of the Theatre (Ève du Théâtre) for her role in the play ''

The Rose Tattoo ''The Rose Tattoo'' is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1949 and 1950; after its Chicago premiere on December 29, 1950, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2, 1951, and its publication b ...

'' at Rideau de Bruxelles.

Theater

* 1938:

Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tr ...

Bérénice ''Berenice'' () is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. ''Berenice'' was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries. It was premiered on 21 November 1670 by the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de ...

'' at the

Royal Park Theatre The Royal Park Theatre (; ) is a theatre in central Brussels, Belgium. It is located at 3, Rue de la Loi, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, on the edge of Brussels Park, facing the Belgian Federal Parliament, Belgian House of Parliament (Palace of the N ...

* 1952:

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three ...

'', directed by Maurice Vaneau, Rideau de Bruxelles * 1989:

George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 188 ...

'' Pygmalion'' directed by Jean-Pierre Rey, Théâtre royal des Galeries

Filmographie

* 1967 : ''

Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans ''Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans'' is a three-Act (drama), act comedy Play (theatre), play written in 1910 by the Belgium, Belgian playwrights Frantz Fonson and Fernand Wicheler. It is a Bourgeoisie, bourgeois situation comedy of manners an ...

'' * 1970 : '' Peace in the Fields''

External links

Her roles
at the La Bellone homepage
Ses rôles
at the Asp@sia * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vernal, Irene Belgian stage actresses 20th-century Belgian actresses 1912 births Actresses from Antwerp 2008 deaths Belgian film actresses