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Two other sisters, Marion Terry (1852–1930) and Florence Terry (1854–1896), and a brother Fred Terry (1863–1933), were also in the theater as were Fred's children with actress Julia Neilson —Dennis Neilson-Terry and Phyllis Neilson-Terry. But it was the second daughter, Ellen Alice, who became the best-known member of the family, being ...
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.
Dame Alice Ellen Terry GBE (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.
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 ...
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 artist George ...
Famed Shakespearean actor Ellen Terry (1847–1928) played the role of Lady Macbeth in Henry Irving’s production at the London Lyceum beginning in December 1888. Sargent admired her performance and costume and convinced her to pose for him. He shows Terry placing a crown on her head after the murder of Duncan, the Scottish king.
Ellen Terry: A Victorian Enigma. A talk given to the Oscar Wilde Society at Rules Restaurant on 25 November 2006. It is hard for us to realise now just how famous and adored was the actress Ellen Terry in the late nineteenth century. Indeed, young men would even propose to their girlfriends with the words, 'Well, as Ellen.