Gabrielle Réjane

Gabrielle-Charlotte Reju, known professionally under the stage name Gabrielle Réjane (French pronunciation: ​[ɡa.bʁi.jɛl ʁe.ʒan]), was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress.

Born in Paris, the daughter of an actor, she became a pupil of Régnier at the Conservatoire, and took the second prize for comedy in 1874. Her debut was the next year, during which she played a number of light—especially soubrette—parts. Her first great success was in Henri Meilhac's Ma camarade (1883), and she soon became known as an emotional actress of rare gifts, notably in Décor, Germinie Lacerteux, Ma cousine, Amoureuse and Lysistrata.