Mimi Dancourt
Marie-Anne-Michelle Carton (* 1685 - March 21, 1780 in Paris ), known as Mimi Dancourt , was a French actress.
biography
As the daughter of Thérèse Dancourt and Florent Dancourt , she played her first child role , the chonchette, in 1695 in her father's play, La Foire de Bezons . She received her first real role at the Comédie-Française in 1699.
She looked very similar to her mother and so she also played the teenage lover, but also comic roles and the classic soubrette . In 1726 she took on the role of mother in Voltaire's L'Indiscret , a character she turned down for herself. In 1728 she said goodbye to the stage. Until the end of her life she received a pension of 1,000 livres .
Mimi Dancourt was married to a civil servant in the military, Samuel Boutinon Delhayes. Only one known child, Thérèse , emerged from this marriage .
Roles (selection)
- Jean-François Regnard : Démocrite amoureux , the Isméne
- Dancourt: Les trois cousines , the quirk
- Jean Racine : Athalie , the Zacharie
- Charles Du Fresny : Le Mariage, fait et rompu , the lady of the house
- Voltaire: L'Indiscret , the euphémie
literature
- Henry Lyonnet : Dictionnaire des comédiens français , Paris, Volume 1, p. 423, digitized
- Pierre-David Lemazurier: Galerie historique des acteurs du Théâtre français , Paris: Chaumerot, 1st volume. P. 126, digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dancourt, Mimi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dancourt, Marie-Anne-Michelle Carton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1685 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1780 |
| Place of death | Paris |