Dame Alice Ellen TerryGBE (27 February 1847[1] – 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 Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. She soon returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and retired from the stage for six years. She resumed acting in 1874 and was immediately acclaimed for her portrayal of roles in Shakespeare and other classics.
In 1878 she joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than the next two decades she was considered the leading Shakespearean and comic actress in Britain. Two of her most famous roles were Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. She and Irving also toured with great success in America and Britain.
In 1903 Terry took over management of London's Imperial Theatre, focusing on the plays of George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen. The venture was a financial failure, and Terry turned to touring and lecturing. She continued to find success on stage until 1920, while also appearing in films from 1916 to 1922. Her career lasted nearly seven decades.
^Birth certificate is dated 1847 Archived 6 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Dame Alice EllenTerry GBE (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family...
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farewell performances. The great 19th-century stage team Henry Irving and EllenTerry counted Benedick and Beatrice as their greatest triumph.[citation needed]...
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influential body of theoretical writings. Craig was the son of actress Dame EllenTerry. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth)...
centuries, including Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Melmoth, Helen Faucit, EllenTerry, Jeanette Nolan, Vivien Leigh, Isuzu Yamada, Simone Signoret, Vivien...
woman – & weak – not a Dove – of course not – but first of all a wife. —EllenTerry Performances outside the patent theatres were instrumental in bringing...
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women's suffrage movement in England. She was the daughter of actress EllenTerry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin...
and Terry's two illegitimate children, Teddy and Edy. Whether Irving's long, spectacularly successful relationship with leading lady EllenTerry was romantic...
Portrait Gallery, Death-mask of EllenTerry". Retrieved 4 November 2017. "National Trust catalogue: Plaster medallion of EllenTerry". Retrieved 5 November 2017...
West End debut in the comedy She Stoops to Conquer in 1881. In 1878, EllenTerry joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than...
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(1903) and a costume dress worn by the actress EllenTerry as Lady Macbeth, depicted in the painting EllenTerry as Lady Macbeth (1889). It was common in some...
Among these paintings is a portrait of his young wife, the actress EllenTerry, who was 30 years his junior – having been introduced by mutual friend...
a Salvation Army maternity hospital in East London. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father...
daughter of the actress Kate Terry, and a member of the stage dynasty that included Ellen, Fred and Marion Terry, Mabel Terry-Lewis and Edith and Edward...
The Illustrated Verses of William Butler Yeats, a book on actress Dame EllenTerry by Bram Stoker, and two of her own books, Widdicombe Fair and Fair Vanity...
performance. The play was also one of EllenTerry's last performances with Henry Irving at the Lyceum in 1896. Terry's performance was widely praised, though...
in complete contrast, played Othello as a restrained gentleman. When EllenTerry played Desdemona she commented on how much Booth's style helped her:...
impressed an audience that included Lady Tree, the young Sybil Thorndike and EllenTerry, who wrote in her diary, "The small boy who played Brutus is already...
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