Marie Seebach

She was born in Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire as the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach (1798–1863).

In 1852 she achieved her first great success at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust, and she remained there until 1854, when she appeared in Vienna.

She then played in Munich, establishing her reputation as a tragic actress with the lead roles in Jane Eyre and Adriana Lecouvreur.

In 1870–1871 she visited the United States, and gave in seventeen cities no less than 160 performances mostly of Faust; and in 1886 she accepted a permanent engagement at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin.

In 1895 she endowed a home for poor actors and actresses at Weimar, called the Marie Seebach Stiftung.