Ellen Price, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ellen Price

Danish actor and ballerina

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1878

Place of Birth: Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1968

Profession: ballet dancer, stage actor, model, film actor

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ellen Price

  • Ellen Juliette Collin Price de Plane (June 21, 1878, Snekkersten - March 4, 1968, Brøndby Municipality), better known as Ellen Price, was a Danish ballerina and actress, and a model for the statue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. Price was born in a well-known artistic family: her father Andreas Nicolai Carl Price (1839–1909) and her mother Helga Collin (1841–1918) were ballet dancers in Royal Danish Theatre.
  • Her father's cousin, Juliette Price (1831–1906), was a Danish prima ballerina and a number of Price's other relatives were actors and musicians. In 1889 - 1895, Price was trained at school of Royal Danish Ballet and joined the theater of Royal Danish Ballet; she debuted on May, 28th 1895 with a pas de trois in the ballet Window (La Ventana) written by composer Hans Christian Lumbye and choreographed by August Bournonville.
  • In 1903, she became a prima ballerina of Royal Danish Ballet.
  • Her roles included La Sylphide, Cinderella, and Little Mermaid. The role of the Little Mermaid gave her the most unexpected glory.
  • The ballet The Little Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale and set to music by Fini Henriques, was put by the choreographer Hans Beck (1861–1952) in 1909 with the Royal Danish Ballet.
  • Among spectators of ballet had been Danish brewer and art collector Carl Jacobsen; the ballet left such a strong impression on him that he commissioned sculptor Edvard Eriksen to create a statue of the Little Mermaid.
  • Though Price agreed to model for the statue, she refused to pose nude and her likeness was only used for the head of the statue.
  • For the body of the statue, Eriksen used his wife Eline Eriksen as a model.
  • The bronze statue that Eriksen created was unveiled on 23 August 1913 and presented to the city by Jacobsen.
  • The Little Mermaid statue has since become a symbol of Copenhagen. Price worked in Royal Danish Ballet until 1913.
  • Afterward, she pursued a career as a dramatic actress.
  • She worked at drama theater of city Aarhus and acted in two silent films.
  • She died on March 4, 1968, in the Brøndby Municipality; she was buried in the small city of Gudhjem on the Danish island Bornholm in a southwest part of Baltic Sea.

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