Ellen Juliette Collin Price de Plane (21 June 1878, Snekkersten – 4 March 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.

[4] 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.

[6] The bronze statue that Eriksen created was unveiled on 23 August 1913 and presented to the city by Jacobsen.

She worked at drama theater of city Aarhus and acted in two silent films.

She died on 4 March 1968 in Brøndby Municipality; she was buried in the small city of Gudhjem on the Danish island Bornholm in a southwest part of Baltic Sea.