Uta Hagen
Uta Thyra Hagen ( born June 12, 1919 in Göttingen, † 14 January 2004 in New York) was a German - American stage actress.
Life
Hagen was the daughter of the art historian Oskar Hagen and the opera singer Thyra Leisner, making her a passion for the theater and the singing was to a certain extent in the cradle. On August 23, 1924 ( departure; arrival on 4 September ), she moved with her parents from Germany to the United States to Wisconsin. After studying Dramatic Arts in London, she was in America celebrated a stage actress.
She made her stage debut in 1937 as Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet in Dennis, Massachusetts. In Othello, she stood as Desdemona opposite Paul Robeson in the title role and José Ferrer as Iago on stage. In 1947 she replaced Jessica Tandy in the role of Blanche on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire drama with Marlon Brando as Stanley. In the world premiere of Edward Albee's famous play Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? she played in 1962 the role of Martha, Arthur Hill as George. Among her few film appearances include roles in The Boys from Brazil (1978 ) opposite Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck and Lilli Palmer and in The Affair of Fortune (1990 ) alongside Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons.
As a drama teacher, she taught at the drama school of her second husband, Herbert Berghof Studio the, actors like Robert De Niro and Amanda Peet, but also Geraldine Page, Jason Robards and Matthew Broderick. In 1973 she wrote her first book, Respect for Acting, in which they pointed out the career of the actor as challenging as equally diverse crafts and outlining. Her second, in 1991 published book A Challenge For The Actor represents a revision and extension of the first, which she fashioned into a training manual for actors.
Awards
For its services, Hagen twice received a Tony Award and in 1999 another for their life's work, a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Private
Uta Hagen was married with two fellow actors; their first in 1938 with José Ferrer closed marriage ended in divorce in 1948. Then she married on January 25, 1957 Herbert Berghof, with whom she was married until his death in 1990. Her older brother Holger Hagen was 1945-1948 theater and music director of the U.S. military government in West Germany. Until his death in 1996 he was in Germany a sought-after actor and voice actor.