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Uta Hagen
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…
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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.
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2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie Self
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2004
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
Movie Self
- 2003
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1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Movie Self / Desdemona in 'Othello' (voice)
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1997
Oz
TV show Mama Rebadow
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1997
King of the Hill
TV show Maureen (voice)
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1991
The Sunset Gang
Movie Sophie (segment "The Home")
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1990
Reversal of Fortune
Movie Maria
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1987
Seasonal Differences
Movie Omi
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1985
The Twilight Zone
TV show (segment "The Library")
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1984
A Doctor's Story
Movie Mrs. Hilda Reiner
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Sophie (segment 'The Home')
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1978
The Boys from Brazil
Movie Frieda Maloney
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1977
Lou Grant
TV show
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1972
ABC Afterschool Special
TV show Omi
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1972
The Other
Movie Ada
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1966
CBS Playhouse
TV show Annamae Whiteley
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1966
NET Playhouse
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