1. Kristin Linklater was a Scottish vocal coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author.
11 Facts About Kristin Linklater
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Kristin Linklater retired from the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University where she was professor emerita.
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Kristin Linklater taught voice in New York University's graduate theater program from 1965 to 1978.
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Kristin Linklater left in the mid-1990s to develop her own approach to voice for actors, influenced by her teachers at LAMDA as well as the Alexander Technique.
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Kristin Linklater's work was designed to liberate the natural function of the vocal mechanism as opposed to developing a vocal technique.
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Kristin Linklater was of partial Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater.
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Kristin Linklater trained many well-known actors, including Sir Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Murray, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Bernadette Peters.
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Kristin Linklater was a teacher and head of the Acting program at Emerson College from 1990 to 1996.
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In 2013, Kristin Linklater established the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre in Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland, to train and coach students in voice technique.
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Kristin Linklater's father was novelist Eric Linklater, and her mother was social activist, Marjorie MacIntyre.
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On 5 June 2020, Kristin Linklater died of a heart attack at the age of 84.