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Uta Hagen
Actor
Born June 11, 1919Died January 14, 2004 (84 years)
Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, who called her "a profoundly truthful actress." Because Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theatre.
She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio and authored best-selling acting texts, Respect for Acting, with Haskel Frankel, and A Challenge for the Actor. Her most substantial contributions to theatre pedagogy were a series of "object exercises" that built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski and Yevgeny Vakhtangov.
She was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999.
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She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio and authored best-selling acting texts, Respect for Acting, with Haskel Frankel, and A Challenge for the Actor. Her most substantial contributions to theatre pedagogy were a series of "object exercises" that built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski and Yevgeny Vakhtangov.
She was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Uta Hagen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| 1997 | Oz (TV Series) · as Mama Rebadow |
| 1997 | King of the Hill (TV Series) · as Maureen (voice) |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune · as Maria |
| 1988 | Tattinger's (TV Series) · as Honey Epstein |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Desdemona In 'othello' |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) |
| 1984 | A Doctor's Story · as Mrs. Hilda Reiner |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Sophie (segment "the Home") |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil · as Frieda Maloney |
| 1977 | Lou Grant (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Omi |
| 1972 | The Other · as Ada |
| 1968 | One Life to Live (TV Series) · as Hortense |
| 1967 | CBS Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Long Hot Summer (TV Series) · as Eleanor Davis |
| 1959 | The Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Natalia Petrovna |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) · as Ruth |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Lady Macbeth |