Historia mojego życia - ELLEN TERRY - 1847-1928

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TERRY Ellen Alice, Dame (1847-1928)

matka E.G. Craiga, wybitna kontynuatorka rodzinnych tradycji aktorskich, wieloletnia współpracowniczka H. Irvinga; zasłynęła rolami szekspirowskimi i repertuarem modernistycznym; autobiografia Historia mojego życia, pośmiertnie wydana korespondencja z G.B. Shawem i cykl wykładów o Szekspirze.

Dame Ellen Alice Terry GBE (February 27, 1847 – July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress. Born into a theatrical family, Terry played her first role opposite Charles Kean at

London

's Princess' Theatre at the age of nine. She continued acting and entered the company at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1861.

Born Alice Ellen--she reversed her names by the time of her first marriage--Terry was born in

Coventry

,

England

in 1847 into a theatrical family headed by actors. Of Benjamin Terry and Sarah Ballard's eleven children, five Inlcuding Ellen) became actors:

Florence

, Fred, Kate and

Marion

. Two other children, George and Charles, were connected with theatre management. Charles was the father of two daughters who would also appear on the stage, Minnie and Beatrice.[1]

Ellen's first appearance onstage came at the age of seven when she played the Duke of York in Shakespeare's Richard III at the Princess Theatre. She had been trained under Charles Kean and his wife, Ellen.[2] At the age of nine she appeared under Charles Kean as Mamilius in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Her older sister Kate, who had begun acting in

London

in 1852, also played at the Princess. She continued acting at the Princess Theatre until the Kean's retirement in 1859.[3] In her autobiography she described herself during those years as "a very strong, happy and healthy child."[4]

For the next two years, Ellen and Kate began travelling as strolling players, accompanied by their parents and a musician. They travelled to a different town almost every day and slept in small inns. The family returned to

London

in 1861.

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