Ellen Price
Ellen Juliette Collin Price (born June 21, 1878 in Snekkersten near Helsingør , Denmark, † March 4, 1968 in Brøndby , Denmark) was a Danish prima ballerina and actress .
Life
Her parents were the Danish actors at the royal theater ( Det kongelige Teater ) in Copenhagen Helga Collin (1841-1918) and Andreas Nicolai Carl Price (1839-1909).
Ellen Price was an apprentice at the Royal Theater Ballet in Copenhagen and was trained by Waldemar Price and Hans Beck. She made her royal theater debut on May 28, 1895 with La Ventana . She was prima ballerina at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen from 1903 to 1913. For the season 1913–1915 she was engaged as an actress at the theater in Aarhus . Here she embodies Hedwig in Die Wildente (Norwegian: Vildanden ), a play by Henrik Ibsen from 1884. She also starred in two silent films with Den farlige leg (1911) and På dødens tærskel (1913). After finishing her dance career, she worked entirely as a theater actress.
Ellen Price was from 1902 to 1911 with the journalist Jean Louis Eugène Etienne Xavier de Plane (1880-1945) and since 1919 with the actor Aage Emil August Angelo Colding (1869-1921) married. In 1932 she remarried her first husband in Tønder .
The Copenhagen sculptor Edvard Eriksen (1876–1959) designed the head of the bronze sculpture The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille Havfrue ) based on the model of Ellen Price , based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen . His wife was the model for the body. It became the symbol of Copenhagen.
The grave of Ellen Price is in the cemetery in Gudhjem on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea .
Web links
- Ellen Price in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Price, Ellen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Price, Ellen Juliette Collin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish prima ballerina and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Snekkersten near Helsingør , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th March 1968 |
| Place of death | Brøndby , Denmark |