15 Facts About Judith Malina

Judith Malina was a German-born American actress, director and writer.

Judith Malina's parents influenced her deeply, leading her to find an interest in political theatre, as her father left Germany with his family, largely due to the rise of antisemitism in the late 1920s, after attempting to warn people of the threat posed by Nazism.

From 1943 until 1945, Judith Malina worked for Valeska Gert at the Beggar Bar.

Judith Malina appeared occasionally in films, beginning in 1975, when she played Al Pacino's mother in Dog Day Afternoon.

Judith Malina had no money, and we had to pay her fare from Vermont, but she walked in and was perfect.

Judith Malina had major roles in Household Saints and the low-budget film Nothing Really Happens.

Judith Malina appeared in an episode of the TV series The Sopranos in 2006 as a nun, the secret mother of Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri.

Judith Malina has a significant supporting role in the film Enemies, A Love Story, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Judith Malina is the subject of the documentary Love and Politics by Azad Jafarian and took part in Rosa von Praunheim's documentary New York Memories.

The thing about Judith Malina is that she is indefatigable, unstoppable, erupting with ideas.

Judith Malina is long-living, long-working, optimistic, and by the second decade of the 21st century girlish and old womanish at the same time.

Judith Malina met her long-time collaborator and husband Julian Beck in 1943 when she was 17 and he was a student at Yale University.

Beck and Judith Malina had "two offstage children", Garrick and Isha.

Judith Malina died in Englewood, New Jersey, on April 10,2015.

In 1996, Judith Malina was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Whittier College.