Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg

Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg (27 October 1876 – 30 March 1976) was a Dutch stage actress of the 19th and 20th centuries. She began acting on stage in 1897 and did it professionally from 1901. Royaards-Sandberg worked for the , the Het Masker, the Amsterdam Theater Company, the Dutch Comedy, Theater, Ensemble and the Amsterdam Toneel companies. Early life On 27 October 1876, Royaards-Sandberg was born to the soldier Johan Jacob Sandberg and Marianne Begemann in Pamekasan in the former Dutch East Indies. She had four siblings and the family moved to a large terraced house in Haarlem in the Netherlands in 1882. Following private education at a boarding school in Germany, Royaards-Sandberg was enrolled by her parents at the boarding school in Driebergen in January 1892. She left the boarding school and went back to the family home in March 1893 and enrolled in private lessons in French, Italian and violin. Royaards-Sandberg went on to attend both the Frankfurter Theaterschule, and the Amsterdam School of Vocal and Dramatic Art to read from the age of 20 and was tutored by and André Jolles. She took the advice of Jolles and took acting lessons at the Comédie-Française in Paris. Career She made her debut on stage in Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen which was directed by Esser on 5 November 1897. Royaards-Sandberg went on to make her first professional stage appearance playing the part of Emilia in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at the on 15 November 1901 and also was cast as Sanderijn in Lanseloet van Denemerken De Duecht' in Elckerlijc in 1908. Between 1908 and 1924, Royaards-Sandberg featured in plays that were directed by her husband . She was cast in the role of Eve in the play by Joost van den Vondel on multiple occasions. Royaards-Sandberg also had roles as Rafaël in Vondel's Lucifer in 1910 as well as Badeloch in Gijsbreght van Aemstel between 1911 and 1912 by the same playwright. She was cast in the role of Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night between 1916 and 1917 and Greetje in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Goethe's Faust from 1917 to 1918.