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Ellen Terry

1847 - 1928

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Dame Alice Ellen Terry (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was a leading English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16, she married the 46-year-old artist George Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Terry has received more than 666,051 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ellen Terry is the 2,946th most popular actor (down from 2,746th in 2019), the 2,587th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,521st in 2019) and the 368th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ellen Terry ranks 2,946 out of 9,996Before her are Johnny Dorelli, Stephen Tobolowsky, Eugenio Derbez, Olivia Williams, Petra Mede, and Elizabeth Mitchell. After her are Anna Galiena, Simon MacCorkindale, Emily Deschanel, Ita Ever, John Kitzmiller, and Madhubala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Ellen Terry ranks 61Before her are Hiệp Hòa, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Koos de la Rey, Charles Renard, and Émile Faguet. After her are Domenico Ferrata, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, William Edward Ayrton, Ida Saxton McKinley, and William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie. Among people deceased in 1928, Ellen Terry ranks 70Before her are Richard F. Outcault, Alexander Trepov, Gustave Ador, Robert Lansing, Karin Bergöö Larsson, and Sverre Hassel. After her are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Roubaud, Luigi Bianchi, Ladislav Klíma, Eilif Peterssen, and Arthur Gore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ellen Terry ranks 2,587 out of 7,765Before her are Richard Lydekker (1849), David Seaman (1963), Thomas Telford (1757), Alan Baddeley (1934), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), and Olivia Williams (1968). After her are Simon MacCorkindale (1952), John Haigh (1909), John Winthrop (1588), David Bailey (1938), Edwin Lutyens (1869), and Warwick Davis (1970).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ellen Terry ranks 368Before her are Belinda Lee (1935), Jane Asher (1946), Rachel Roberts (1927), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), Siân Phillips (1933), and Olivia Williams (1968). After her are Simon MacCorkindale (1952), Warwick Davis (1970), Richard Bremmer (1953), Gladys Cooper (1888), Jeremy Bulloch (1945), and Amanda Tapping (1965).

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