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Ellen Terry. Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928), was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16, she married the 46-year-old ...
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent. Terry in the role of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII (1892). Terry plays the role of Volumnia in Coriolanus (1901). Terry played Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1902). This page showcases representations of Ellen Terry as she appeared in various roles.
Mar 27, 2009 · March 27, 2009. The actress Ellen Terry, whom George Bernard Shaw loved from afar and wrote to compulsively, had a captivating walk-on role in Michael Holroyd’s magisterial biography of Shaw. In ...
Actress Born in Coventry where her actor parents were on tour. Terry was one of eleven siblings and won fame as a child first appearing on stage in 1856 with Charles Kean. Married the painter G.F. Watts in 1864 but separated within a year. Terry had two children by the architect Edward Godwin, Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig. Returned to stage in 1872 to establish herself as a leading ...
Ellen Terry, an actress of equal renown, has worked in partnership with Irving at the Lyceum since 1878. Together, the pair have staged several Shakespeare plays, along with the work of numerous contemporary playwrights. In 1925, Terry will become the second actress to be created a dame.
Mar 2, 2010 · Ellen Terry came from a big old theatre family -- Gielgud is a member of it. Irving came from nothing. Together on the Lyceum stage, they played the commercial and classic successes of their time in expensive productions and to huge audiences.
Cassell. EC 's mother, the well-known actress Ellen Terry, had already, before Edith was born, been married to the painter G. F. Watts for less than a year from 1864, and was not divorced. She... Her Welsh grandmother, born Mary Anne Mathews, whom she called Nain, had kept a youthful journal, some of which BR prints.
