Virginia Harned

{{Short description|19th-20th century American stage actress}}

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| name = Virginia Harned

| image = Virginia_Harned_1868-1946.jpg

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| birth_name = Virginia Hickes

| birth_date = {{Birth date |mf=yes|1868|05|29}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, US

| death_date = {{death date and age |mf=yes|1946|04|29|1868|05|29}}

| death_place = New York City, US

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| occupation = Stage actress

| yearsactive = 1888–1918

| spouse = Edward Hugh Sothern(1896–1910)
William Courtenay

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Virginia Harned (May 29, 1868some sources give 1872 – April 29, 1946), born Virginia Hicks, was a noted American stage actress at the turn of the 20th century. She is mainly remembered for playing the title character in the 1895 Broadway premiere of the play Trilby, based on the 1894 George du Maurier novel of the same name. The play had originally premiered, earlier that year, in England with an English actress.

Her second husband was E. H. Sothern,[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E10F83B5F1B738DDDAD0894DA415B8685F0D3 "Edward H. Sothern Married; Virginia Harned Is Mrs. Sothern – Ceremony in Philadelphia".] The New York Times, December 4, 1896 who later married Julia Marlowe, and her third husband was actor William Courtenay, who appeared on stage with her several times and who left her a widow in 1933.Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 compilation of the annual editions published originally by John Parker; page 1098 of volume 2 (D-H); 1976 books published by the Gale Research company]