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ELLEN ALICIA See also:TERRY (1848– )
, See also:English actress, was See also:born at See also:Coventry on the 27th of See also:February 1848
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Her parents were well-known provincial actors, and her sisters Kate, See also:Marion and See also:Florence, and her See also:brother Fred, all joined the theatrical profession, and her own first See also:appearance on the See also:stage was made on the 28th of See also:April 1856, under the Keans' management, as the boy Mamilius in The See also:Winter's See also:Tale, at the Princess's See also:theatre, See also:London
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Two years later she played See also:Prince See also:Arthur in See also:
This was followed by a See also:succession of smaller triumphs at the See also:Court theatre, culminating in her beautiful impersonation of Olivia in W
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See also:Wills's dramatic version of See also:Goldsmith's See also:Vicar of See also:Wakefield, in 1878, the result of which was her engagement by Henry Irving as his leading See also:lady for the See also:Lyceum theatre, and the beginning of a See also:long See also:artistic See also:partnership, in the success of which See also:Miss See also:Terry's attractive See also:personality played a large See also:part
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Her Shakespearean impersonations at the Lyceum were Ophelia in 1878, Portia in 1879, Desdemona in 1881, Juliet and See also:Beatrice in 1882, See also:Viola in 1884, Lady See also:Macbeth in 1888, Katherine, in Henry VIII., and Cordelia in 1892, Imogen in 1896, and Volumnia, in See also:Coriolanus, in 1901
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Other notable performances were those of the Queen in Wills's Charles I. in 1879, Camma in See also:Tennyson's The See also:Cup in 1881, See also:Margaret in Wills's See also:Faust in 1885, and the See also:title-part in Charles Reade's See also:rue-See also:act See also:play Nance See also:Oldfield (1893), Rosamund in Tennyson's See also:Becket (1893), Madame Sans-Gene in See also:Sardou's play (1897), and Clarisse in See also:Robespierre (1899)
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With the Lyceum See also:company she several times visited the See also:United States
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In 1902, while still acting with See also:Sir Henry Irving, she appeared with Mrs See also:Kendal in Beerbohm See also:Tree's revival of The Merry Wives of See also:Windsor, at His See also:Majesty's theatre, and she continued, after Sir Henry Irving's See also:death, to act at different theatres, notably at the Court theatre (1905) in some of G
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See also:Bernard See also:Shaw's plays
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In 1906 her stage-See also:jubilee was celebrated in London with much See also:enthusiasm, a popular subscription in See also:England and See also:America resulting in some £8000 being raised
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In 1907 Miss Terry married See also: 1865) also became a leading actor, and a successful manager in association with his wife, the actress Julia See also:Neilson . See Charles Hiatt, Ellen Terry and her Impersonations 0898); See also:Clement See also:Scott, Ellen Terry . |
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