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TERRY, ELLEN ALICIA (1848 ) , English actress, was born at Coventry on the 27th of February 1848. Her parents were well-known provincial actors, and her sisters Kate, Marion and Florence, and her brother Fred, all joined the theatrical profession, and her own first appearance on the stage was made on the 28th of April 1856, under the Keans' management, as the boy Mamilius in The Winter's Tale, at the Princess's theatre, London. Two years later she played Prince Arthur in King John with such grace as to win high praise. From 186o to 1863 and again from 1867 to 1868 she acted with various stock companies. During this period she played, on the 26th of December 1867, for the first time with Henry
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Terry 's attractive personality played a large part. Her Shakespearean impersonations at the Lyceum were Ophelia in 1878, Portia in 1879, Desdemona in 1881, Juliet and Beatrice in 1882, Viola in 1884, Lady Macbeth in 1888, Katherine, in Henry VIII., and Cordelia in 1892, Imogen in 1896, and Volumnia, in Coriolanus, in 1901. Other notable performances were those of the Queen in Wills's Charles I. in 1879, Camma in Tennyson's The Cup in 1881, Margaret in Wills's Faust in 1885, and the title-part in Charles Reade's rue-act play Nance Oldfield (1893), Rosamund in Tennyson's Becket (1893), Madame Sans-Gene in Sardou's play (1897), and Clarisse in Robespierre (1899). With the Lyceum company she several times visited the United States. In 1902, while still acting with Sir Henry Irving, she appeared with Mrs Kendal in Beerbohm Tree's revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor, at His Majesty's theatre, and she continued, after Sir Henry Irving's death, to act at different theatres, notably at the Court theatre (1905) in some of G. Bernard
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Terry married James Carew, an American actor.Her sister Marion Terry (b. 1856) became only less distin-guished on the English stage than herself ; and her brothel Fred Terry (b. 1865) also became a leading actor, and a successful manager in association with his wife, the actress Julia Neilson. See Charles Hiatt, Ellen Terry and her Impersonations 0898); Clement Scott, Ellen Terry. End of Article: TERRY, ELLEN ALICIA (1848 ) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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