This is a list of the notable roles played by the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, including both stage roles and early motion pictures,[1][2] with the year of the first performance.
[3][4] Roles first performed by Bernhardt are noted as premieres.
1863, 16 July[6] (fr) (fr) later Mme Dieudonné (fr) (frères Cogniard) with music by Auguste Pilati[8] (The Legacy) (fr) (King Lear) 1869, 14 January[14] male role 1869, 18 September[15] 1870, 25 February[16] (Doña Maria de Neubourg, Queen of Spain) 1872, 6 November[21] 1872, 14 December[22] Male role (fr) 1874, 23 March[25] male role 1876, 27 September[32] (Doña Maria de Neubourg, Queen of Spain) 1879, 4 April[34] 1882, 26 May[36] 1882, 12 December[37] male role 1883, 17 September[39] 1883, 20 December[40] 1884, 26 December[42] one act 1887, 3 March[44] F. C. Philipps 1889, 16 April[45] 1890, 23 October[47] music by J.S.
Bach (fr) Alfred Humbolt 1892, 16 June 1893, 19 November[54] 1894, 24 January[55] In USA: 1896[56] 1894, 3 April[57] 1894, 9 Juny[58] 1894, 31 October[59] 1895, 5 April[60] 1896, 30 September[61] 1896, 30 December[62] male role 1897, 8 February[63] (fr) (it) 1898, 21 January[65] 1898, 20 April[66] 1898, 20 November[68] 1899, 8 March[69] 1899, 9 April[70] adapted by Marcel Schwob and Eugene Morand Male role In USA: 1900[71] Filmed scenes: Hamlet (1900).
Male role 1909, 25 November[93] In USA: 1910[94] 1909, 8 May[44] Male role In USA: December 1910[96] Premiere in USA: Dec 24, 1910[98] (Sister Beatrice) 1912, 11 April[101] Filmed: Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) 1912, 21 November[102] 1912, 11 September[103] (fr) 1913, 16 December[104] Filmed in 1916 1914, 15 April[105] 1915, 7 November[106] In USA: 1917[107] In USA: 1917[108] 1914, 4 March[109] In USA: 1917[110] In USA: 1917[111] In USA: 1917[112] (The Merchant of Venice) In USA: "Shylock" (scenes) in 1917[113] (fr) (fr) (Rossini's mother) 1920, 1 April[119] 1910, 10 November[120] Filmed in 1921 1920?