# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susannah-maria-cibber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:04:25.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susannah-maria-cibber"
name: "Susannah Maria Cibber"
slug: "susannah-maria-cibber"
description: "Susannah Maria Cibber was an English singer and actress. She was the sister of the composer Thomas Arne. Although she began her career as a soprano, her voice lowered in the early part of her career to that of a true contralto. She was admired for her ability to move her audiences emotionally both as an actress and vocalist. Possessing a sweet, expressive, and agile singing voice with a wide vocal range, Cibber was an immensely popular singer, even if at times her voice was criticized for a lack of polished technique. Charles Burney wrote of her singing that \"by a natural pathos, and perfect conception of the words, she often penetrated the heart, when others, with infinitely greater voice and skill, could only reach the ear\". Cibber was particularly admired by Handel, who wrote numerous parts especially for her including the contralto arias in his 1741 oratorio Messiah, the role of Micah in Samson, the role of Lichas in Hercules and the role of David in Saul, among others. In the mid-1730s she began appearing in plays in addition to appearing in operas and oratorios. She became the greatest dramatic actress of the 18th-century London stage, and at the time of her death was the highest-paid actress in England."
tagline: "English singer and actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Susanna_Cibber.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1714"
deathDate: "1766-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.677682666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6385685-9bc3-4439-b78d-0ad3c790056b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سوساناه ماريا سيبير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Cibber"
    title: "Susannah Maria Cibber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Cibber"
    title: "Susannah Maria Cibber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%96%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9F"
    title: "סוזאנה מריה ארן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Arne"
    title: "Susannah Maria Arne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC"
    title: "スザンナ・マリア・シバー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Cibber"
    title: "Susanna Cibber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Cibber"
    title: "Susannah Maria Cibber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Cibber"
    title: "Susannah Maria Cibber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Maria_Arne"
    title: "Susannah Maria Arne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86%DB%81_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "سوسنہ ماریا سائبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1638296"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump