Ellen Terry

The singer, Helen Terry, is one of her descendants. She also appeared as Cecilia in Imagining Argentina (2003), playing alongside Antonio Banderas. Her nephew, Sir John Gielgud, also became an actor. Thompson appeared as Sibyll Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) following her divorced husband Kenneth Branagh who played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1925. However, the pinnacle of her career was winning an Academy Award in 1996 for the screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, in which she also played the lead, Elinor Dashwood. In 1907 she married American actor James Carew. Forster novel, the sombre The Remains of the Day opposite Anthony Hopkins, and The Winter Guest.

She struck up a friendship and a famous correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. M. In 1903 she formed a theatre management business with her son, abandoning Irving. Thompson also starred in romantic comedies such as The Tall Guy, and more serious films such as Howards End, based on the E. In 1876 she married Charles Kelly. Thompson later married actor Greg Wise, with whom she had a child. From 1874 she became the leading Shakespearean actress in London, and in partnership with Henry Irving became successful in England and the USA. They appeared together in hit films such as Dead Again, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, but eventually divorced (October 1995).

However, the birth of her son, Gordon Craig, in 1872, was the result of a liaison with Edward Godwin, who later deserted her, having enforced her temporary retirement from acting. Emma Thompson came to fame with a leading role in the BBC drama serial, Fortunes of War (based on the novels of Olivia Manning), in which she played opposite Kenneth Branagh, whom she later married (August 20, 1989). On 20 February 1864, shortly before her 17th birthday, she married the painter George Frederic Watts. Her sister is actress Sophie Thompson. She first appeared on stage as a child. She is the daughter of actor Eric Thompson (of The Magic Roundabout fame) and actress Phyllida Law. Born in Coventry, she came of a theatrical family, her brother Fred Terry and several of her other siblings being actors. Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London) is an Academy Award-winning British actress.

Ellen Alice Terry (February 27, 1847 - July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress.