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Ellen Terry, born Alice Ellen Terry on February 27, 1847, in Coventry, England, was one of the most renowned actresses of the Victorian era. Terry’s career spanned over six decades and significantly influenced the theater world. She was known for her remarkable talent and magnetic stage presence. This post celebrates her life, achievements ...
On the 27th of February 1848, in a small actor's lodging in Coventry, Ellen Terry was born. Ellen was the third child to be born to Ben and Sarah Terry of an eventual eleven, but one of Ellen's older siblings had already died in infancy so she was the second oldest behind her sister Kate (Terry, 6). Ben Terry had performed as a stock actor with ...
Ellen Terry (1847-1928) Ellen Terry. Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Legendary British stage actress who made a few silent film appearances. The daughter of strolling players, she was born in Coventry into an almost exclusively theatrical family. Her grandparents were actors, as were all six of her siblings.
May 12, 2017 · Born in a Coventry boarding house in 1847 to a theatrical family, Alice Ellen Terry was, like her siblings, intended for the stage. She had little in the way of formal education and spent much of her childhood travelling the country with her parents who were both provincial actors. She made her stage debut aged nine, playing Mamillius in A ...
Ellen Terry. (1847-1928) Dame Ellen Terry, a part of a large and famous family of actors and actor-managers, was one of the most famous actresses in the world in the nineteenth century. Many of her most famous roles were alongside Sir Henry Irving, one of the most famous male actors in the world at the time. She joined his company in 1878 ...
Jul 21, 2017 · Ellen Terry was a popular Shakespearean actress on the stage and, at the end of her life, in films as well. Throughout the final few decades of the 19th century, she was the leading lady at actor-manager Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre in London, and was romantically involved with Irving during that time as well.
