Uta Hagen

Known for ActingBorn 1919-06-11Died 2004-01-14Göttingen, Germany

Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German and 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Uta Hagen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

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Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Oz

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

The Twilight Zone

King of the Hill

Lou Grant

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

NET Playhouse

The Sunset Gang

CBS Playhouse

The Boys from Brazil

A Doctor's Story

Reversal of Fortune

ABC Afterschool Special

The Other

Intimate Portrait

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

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