Vivian Nathan served on the Actors Studio's board of directors until 1999.
20 Facts About Vivian Nathan
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Vivian Nathan appeared in the original Broadway debut productions of The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real.
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The family soon relocated to Maspeth, Queens, where Vivian Nathan attended Holy Cross Parochial School.
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Vivian Nathan later attended the St Nicholas school on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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In 1944, Vivian Nathan caught the eye of John Golden, a theater producer who was auditioning aspiring stage actors.
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The decision to employ her husband Vivian Nathan Schwalb's given name as Firko's stage name appears to have taken place sometime between casting and opening night in the 1949 production of Montserrat, Lillian Hellman's adaptation of the Emmanuel Robles play.
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Vivian Nathan became an original member of the Actors Studio when it was founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg.
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Vivian Nathan worked as acting instructor and session moderator at the Studio.
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Vivian Nathan served on the Actor Studio's board of directors until 1999, alongside Ellen Burstyn, Lee Grant, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, and Estelle Parsons.
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In 1951, Vivian Nathan was cast in the original Broadway opening of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, co-starring together with Martin Balsam, Maureen Stapleton, and Eli Wallach.
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Vivian Nathan re-teamed with Martin Balsam for 1953's Camino Real, directed by Elia Kazan.
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Vivian Nathan received a Clarence Derwent Award in 1955 for her role as the Charwoman in Anastasia.
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Roughly one week after that play's Broadway opening, entertainment writer Ed Sullivan devoted several paragraphs of his syndicated column to a profile of Vivian Nathan, which concluded with the actress stating:.
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Vivian Nathan portrayed a Holocaust survivor in The Investigation in 1966.
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In 1977, Vivian Nathan co-starred opposite Anne Bancroft in the play Golda, directed by Arthur Penn.
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Vivian Nathan made her film debut in the 1958 romantic comedy Teacher's Pet, starring Clark Gable.
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Vivian Nathan appeared in the crime drama The Young Savages and The Outsider, in which she played Tony Curtis' mother.
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Vivian Nathan gave a notable performance as Jane Fonda's psychiatrist in the 1971 crime thriller Klute.
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Vivian Nathan appeared in The Investigation, in The Last Summer episode of Studio One, two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and in the Journey To The Day and The Violent Heart episodes of Playhouse 90.
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Vivian Nathan died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey on April 3,2015, at the age of 98.