Ellen Terry

Lady Ellen Alice Terry GBE ( born February 27, 1847 in Coventry, † July 21, 1928 in Smallhythe at Tenterden, Kent) was a British stage actress and was considered the best Shakespeare - performer of her time.

Life

Ellen Alice Terry came from a renowned family of actors. Even her sisters Marion and Kate were actors. Even as a child she was on stage. On February 20, 1864, she married the painter George Frederic Watts. Their first son, Edward Gordon Craig, whom she brought to the world in 1872, but was the result of a relationship with Edward William Godwin, a progressive architects. During this time, they hardly played theater. This compound was completed in 1874.

After that, she was the most famous actress in Shakespeare 's plays in London. Together with her partner Henry Irving had success in the United States. In 1876 she married Charles Kelly. In 1903 she left him again and, together with her son, a theater management company. She met George Bernard Shaw know and became friends with him. In 1907 she married the American actor James Carew. From 1916 to 1922 she appeared in several films, including 1918 in two anti-German propaganda films by Herbert Brenon. For her life's work to her Lady Commander of the British Empire in 1925 was awarded.

The actor John Gielgud is her nephew.

Filmography

Biographies

• Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. A Correspondence. Edited by Christopher St. John. Constable, London, 1931.
• Roger Manvell: Ellen Terry. Putnam, New York NY 1968.
• Constance Fecher: Bright Star. A portrait of Ellen Terry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1970, ISBN 0-374-30965-5.
• Tom Prideaux: Love or Nothing. The Life and Times of Ellen Terry. Limelight Editions, New York NY, 1987, ISBN 0-87910-105-9.
• Nina Auerbach, Ellen Terry. Player in Her Time. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA 1997, ISBN 0-8122 1613 - X.
• Moira Shearer: Ellen Terry. Sutton, Stroud 1998 ISBN 0-7509-1526-9.