Ellen Price

Ellen Juliette Collin Price ( born June 21, 1878 in Snekkersten in Elsinore, Denmark, † March 4, 1968 in Brøndby, Denmark) was a Danish ballerina and actress.

Her parents were actors on the Danish Royal Theatre (Det kongelige Teater ) in Copenhagen Helga Collin (1841 - 1918) and Andreas Nicolai Carl Price (1839 - 1909).

Ellen Price was an apprentice at the Royal Ballet Copenhagen and was trained by Waldemar Price and Hans Beck. She made her debut at the Royal Theater on May 28, 1895 La Ventana. She was Prima Ballerina from 1903 - 1913 at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen. For the season 1913 - 1915 she was engaged at Aarhus Theatre as an actress. Here it embodies the Hedwig in The Wild Duck ( norweg.: Vildanden ), a play by Henrik Ibsen from 1884 She also plays in two silent films with the farlige leg (1911) and På Dødens tærskel (1913).. After the end of the dance career, she worked entirely as a theater actress.

Ellen Price was from 1902 - 1911 married to journalist Jean Louis Eugène Etienne Xavier de Plane ( 1880 - - 1945) and since 1919 with the actor Aage Emil Angelo August Colding (1921 1869). In 1932 she married again in Tønder her first husband.

The sculptor Edvard Eriksen in Copenhagen (1876 - 1959) designed on the model of Ellen Price the head of the bronze sculpture The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille Havfrue ), based upon the story by Hans Christian Andersen, which has become the symbol of Copenhagen.

The grave of Ellen Price is located in the cemetery in Gudhjem on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm.

• Woman
• Dane
• Ballet Dancers
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1968