{{Short description|French actress (1859–1941)}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Jane Hading | image = Jane Hading.jpg | caption = Portrait during the epoque of the Renaissance theatre | birth_name = Jeanne-Alfrédine Tréfouret | birth_date = 25 November 1859 | birth_place = Marseille, France | occupation = Actress | death_place = | death_date = {{death date and given age|1941|2|df=y|28|81}} | years_active = | spouse = {{marriage|Victor Koning|1884|1888|reason=div}} }} '''Jeanne-Alfrédine Tréfouret<ref name="hading1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=6MgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA159 Jane Hading], ''Munsey's Magazine'' (November 1895)</ref>''' (25 November 1859 &ndash; 28 February 1941),<ref name="nytobit">(19 February 1941). [https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/19/archives/jane-hading-former-favorite-of-comedie-francaise-dies-at-81.html JANE HADING; Former Favorite. of Comedie Francaise Dies at 81], ''The New York Times''</ref> professionally known as '''Jane Hading''', was a French actress.

==Biography== [[Image:Damala.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jane Hading (left) and Jacques Damala in the play ''Le Maître de forges'', circa 1883]] She was born in Marseille, where her father was an actor at the Gymnase.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} She has said that her first appearance on the stage came when she was three years old.

She was trained at the local Conservatoire and was engaged in 1873 for the theatre at Algiers, and afterwards for the Khedivial theatre at Cairo, where she played, in turn, coquette, soubrette and ingenue parts. Expectations had been raised by her voice, and when she returned to Marseille she sang in operetta, besides acting in ''Ruy Blas''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

She first appeared in Paris in 1879 in ''La chaste Suzanne'' at the Palais Royal, and she was again heard in operetta at the Renaissance. She sang in ''La petite mariée'' and ''Belle Lurette''. In 1883 she had a great success at the Gymnase in ''Le maître de forges''. In 1884 she married Victor Koning (1842-1894), the manager of that theatre, but divorced him in 1887.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

In 1888 and 1893, she toured America with Benoît Constant Coquelin. She helped to give success to Henri Lavedan's ''Le Prince d'Aurec'' at the Vaudeville in 1892, and afterwards joined the Comédie Française. Her reputation as one of the leading actresses of the day was established not only in France but in America and England.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} She also toured South America. Victorien Sardou chose her for the title role of his ''Marcelle'' in 1896.

Her later repertoire included ''Le Demi-monde'', Alfred Capus's ''La Châtelaine'', Charles Maurice Donnay's ''Retour de Jerusalem'', ''La Princesse Georges'' by Alexandre Dumas, fils, and Émile Bergerat's ''Plus que reine''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

== Gallery == <gallery> File:Jane Hading, by Alfred Roll.jpg|Jane Hading (Alfred Roll, 1890) File:Jane Hading - Toilette de théâtre par Redfern 1906 cropped.jpg|In ''Serge Panine'' at théâtre de la Gaîté in 1906. File:Jane Hading, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP829625.jpg|alt=Woman standing with two dogs|Jane Hading, ca. 1888 File:Jane Hading, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes MET DP829627.jpg|alt=Woman sitting holding flowers in left hand|Jane Hading, ca. 1888 </gallery>

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==References== * {{EB1911|wstitle=Hading, Jane|volume=12|page=798}} * {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Hading, Jane|year=1905}}

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