1. Peggy Feury became a highly regarded acting teacher in New York and then in Los Angeles.
12 Facts About Peggy Feury
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Peggy Feury's father was Richard Feury; her mother, born in Ireland, was Margaret Feury; and her younger sister was Elinor Feury.
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Peggy Feury graduated from Barnard College, then attended the Yale School of Drama, later studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
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Peggy Feury participated in this project from its inception until her relocation to Los Angeles in December 1968.
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On October 2,1977, Peggy Feury appeared in Iowa, the second season premiere of Visions, PBS's Peabody Award-winning dramatic anthology series; it was directed by Lloyd Richards, and was playwright Murray Mednick's television debut.
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Peggy Feury was a charter member of the Actors Studio and frequently led sessions there when Lee Strasberg was unavailable.
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Peggy Feury taught her own classes in the same building where Strasberg taught, behind Carnegie Hall.
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In December 1968, at Strasberg's suggestion, Peggy Feury moved to Los Angeles with her husband William Traylor and their two daughters.
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Peggy Feury was occasionally called upon to coach an individual actor in a role, as she did Michelle Pfeiffer in Brian De Palma's Scarface and Lily Tomlin in her one-woman stage show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
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The evolution of Tomlin's show formed the basis of a 1986 documentary in which Peggy Feury appeared posthumously; Tomlin dedicated the film to her memory.
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In 1984, in her final film role, Peggy Feury was cast in the film version of Foote's 1918, the seventh of The Orphans' Home Cycle's nine plays.
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Peggy Feury died Wednesday, November 20,1985 in a car accident, a head-on collision, in West Los Angeles.