Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Noun)
Meaning
English actress (1847-1928).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Dame Alice Ellen Terry was one of the most famous actresses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Ellen Terry and her two sisters, Kate and Marion, began their stage careers at a young age under the management of Charles Kean.
- Her Shakespearean heroines are regarded as classics by audiences of her day and in photographs taken at the time she captures some of that evocative sense.
- During Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Terry and Henry Irving had lunch with Oscar Wilde.
- Henry Irving encouraged her and arranged an acting audition, giving Ellen Terry an understudy position to Miss Kate Terry's title role of a musical theatre comedy piece 'Seven Ages' of woman and performing also during these shows from February.