1. Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner.
25 Facts About Uta Hagen
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Uta Hagen 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.
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Uta Hagen was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Uta Hagen twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999.
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Uta Hagen appeared in productions of the University of Wisconsin High School and in summer stock productions of the Wisconsin Players.
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Uta Hagen later studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London for a brief period in 1936.
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Uta Hagen studied acting briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1936.
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Uta Hagen was cast, early on, as Ophelia by the actress-manager Eva Le Gallienne.
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Uta Hagen went on to play the leading ingenue role of Nina in a Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
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Uta Hagen played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan on Broadway, and Desdemona in a production which toured.
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Uta Hagen took over the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire for the national tour, which was directed by Harold Clurman.
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Primarily noted for stage roles, Uta Hagen won her first Tony Award in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl.
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Uta Hagen was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for her performance on the television soap opera One Life to Live.
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Uta Hagen taught at HB Studio, a New York City acting school.
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Uta Hagen began there in 1947, and married its co-founder, Herbert Berghof, on 25 January 1957.
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Uta Hagen was an influential acting teacher who taught, among others, Matthew Broderick, Christine Lahti, Amanda Peet, Hope Davis, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Finneran, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Lemmon, Charles Nelson Reilly, Manu Tupou, Debbie Allen, Herschel Savage, George Segal, Jon Stewart, and Al Pacino.
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Uta Hagen was a voice coach to Judy Garland, teaching her a German accent for the picture Judgment at Nuremberg.
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Later in life, Uta Hagen returned to the stage, earning accolades for leading roles in Mrs Warren's Profession, Collected Stories, and Mrs Klein.
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Uta Hagen wrote Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the Actor, which advocate realistic acting.
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In Respect for Acting, Uta Hagen credited director Harold Clurman with a turn-around in her perspective on acting:.
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Uta Hagen opened a new world in the professional theatre for me.
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Uta Hagen imposed no line readings, no gestures, no positions on the actors.
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Uta Hagen was married to Jose Ferrer from 1938 until 1948.
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Uta Hagen married Herbert Berghof on 25 January 1957, a union that lasted for 33 years until his death in 1990.
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Uta Hagen died in Greenwich Village in 2004 after suffering a stroke in 2001.