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Uta Hagen

Uta Hagen

Actor · 1919 – 2004 · Göttingen, 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.

Movies10

  • Movie6.7

    Reversal of Fortune

    1990 · 364 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Boys from Brazil

    1978 · 465 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.5

    The Other

    1972 · 163 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.7

    A Doctor's Story

    1984 · 3 votes

  • Movie10.0
  • Movie8.0
  • Movie7.0

    The Sunset Gang

    1991 · 1 votes

  • Movie

Series9

  • TV7.4

    King of the Hill

    1997 · 699 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Twilight Zone

    1985 · 264 votes

  • TV8.1

    Oz

    1997 · 877 votes

  • TV4.5

    Intimate Portrait

    1993 · 5 votes

  • TV7.4

    Lou Grant

    1977 · 32 votes

  • TV6.5

    ABC Afterschool Special

    1972 · 15 votes

  • TV7.3

    NET Playhouse

    1966 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    CBS Playhouse

    1966 · 2 votes