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Uta Hagen
Uta Thyra Hagen
(12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German American actress and drama teacher. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by
Edward Albee
(who called her "a profoundly truthful actress"). Because Hagen was on the
Hollywood blacklist
, in part because of her association with
Paul Robeson
, her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theater. She twice won the
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
and received a
Special Tony Award
for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. She 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
. She was elected to the
American Theatre Hall of Fame
in 1981.
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