What is "bellerose"

Bellerose may refer to:

• Bellerose, Queens, neighborhood in New York City
• Bellerose, New York, adjacent village in Nassau County
  • Bellerose (LIRR station)
• Bellerose (actor), French actor in the early 17th century

Bellerose is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) which only serves trains along the Hempstead Branch. The station is at Commonwealth Boulevard and Superior Road, south of Jericho Turnpike, in Bellerose, New York, and has a full-service ticket machine on the north side of the station, next to the underpass entrance and a daily machine on the south side next to the underpass entrance. The station serves the area around the village of Bellerose in Nassau County and the adjacent New York City neighborhood of Bellerose in Queens.

Bellerose or Belle-Rose (1592 – 1670) was the stage name of the French actor and theatre manager Pierre le Messier. He was one of the leading tragedians of the first half of the 17th century.

He apprenticed with Valleran le Conte in 1609, performed in Bourges in 1619, and directed his own company in Marseille in 1620, but little else is known about his early career. He joined the Comédiens du Roi under Gros-Guillaume at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1622. He had a fine speaking voice and performed leading parts in comedies and tragedies, and also acted as the 'orator', the member of the company who formally addressed the audience. Some contemporaries regarded Bellerose as "insipid and affected" and preferred his arch-rival, the more aggressive Montdory at the Théâtre du Marais. After Gros-Guillaume's death in 1634, Bellerose became the leader of the Comédiens du Roi at the Bourgogne and remained in that position until 1647, when he is thought to have sold his interest in the company for a very high price to his brother-in-law Floridor.