Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' by

Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as '' The Zoo Story'' (1958), '' The Sandbox'' (1959), '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), '' A Delicate Balance'' (196 ...

, who called her "a profoundly truthful actress." Because Hagen was on the

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, in part because of her association with

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, her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theatre. 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''. Her most substantial contributions to theatre pedagogy were a series of "object exercises" that built on the work of

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and Yevgeny Vakhtangov. She was elected to the

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in 1981. She twice won the

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and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999.

Life and career

Early life

Born in

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, Germany, daughter of Thyra A. (née Leisner), a trained opera singer, and Oskar Hagen, an art historian and musician, Hagen and her family emigrated to the United States in 1924. Though shipping records indicate that he took a position at

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, his new position was in fact at the

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. Uta was raised in

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. She appeared in productions of the University of Wisconsin High School and in summer stock productions of the Wisconsin Players. She studied acting briefly at the

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in 1936. After spending one semester at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where her father was the head of the department of art history, she left for New York City in 1937. Her first professional role was as Ophelia opposite

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in the title role of ''

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'' in Dennis, Massachusetts, in 1936.

Career

Hagen was cast, early on, as Ophelia by the actress-manager

. From there, Hagen went on to play the leading ingénue role of Nina in a Broadway production of

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's ''

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'' which featured

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and

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. It was 1938; Hagen was just 18. This experience left an indelible mark on the young actress, as she later reflected, "My next job was Nina in ''The Seagull'', er Broadway bowwith the Lunts, on Broadway. That sounds incredible, too. They were an enormous influence on my life." She admired "their passion for the theatre, and their discipline. It was a 24-hour-a-day affair, and I never forgot it—never!" ''The New York Times'' critic

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hailed her Nina as "grace and aspiration incarnate." She played

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's ''Saint Joan'' (1951) on Broadway, and Desdemona in a production which toured and played Broadway, featuring

as Shakespeare's

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and her then-husband José Ferrer as Iago. She took over the role of

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in ''

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'' for the national tour, which was directed not by

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who had directed the Broadway production but by Harold Clurman. Hagen had had a revelatory experience when she first worked with Clurman in 1947. In '' Respect for Acting'', she credited her discoveries with Clurman as the springboard for what she would later explore with her husband Herbert Berghof: "how to find a true technique of acting, how to make a character flow through me." She played Blanche (on the road and on Broadway) opposite at least four different Stanley Kowalskis, including

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and Marlon Brando. Through interviews with her and contemporary criticism, the report is that Hagen's Blanche refocused the audience's sympathies with Blanche rather than with Stanley (where the Brando/Kazan production had leaned). Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen won her first

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in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in

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' '' The Country Girl''. She won again in 1963 for originating the role of Martha in

's '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''. In 1981 she was elected to the

and in 1999 received a "Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award." Hagen considered the period between 1938 and 1947 as "the transitional years of my career, during which I lost my way and a love of acting until I finally regained it to begin a true life in the theater." Although she appeared in some movies, because of the

she had more limited output in film and on television, not making her cinematic debut until 1972. She would later comment about being blacklisted, "that fact kept me pure." She was nominated for a

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as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for her performance on the television

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'' One Life to Live''. She taught at HB Studio, a well-known

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acting school on a cobblestone, tree-shaded street in the West Village. She began there in 1947, and married its co-founder, Herbert Berghof, on 25 January 1957. Later in her life, Hagen undertook a return to the stage, earning accolades for leading roles in '' Mrs. Warren's Profession'' (1985), '' Collected Stories'', and ''Mrs. Klein''. After Berghof's death in 1990, she became the school's chairperson. Hagen was an influential acting teacher who taught, among others, Matthew Broderick, Christine Lahti, Amanda Peet, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Finneran,

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, Whoopi Goldberg,

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, Charles Nelson Reilly, Manu Tupou, Debbie Allen,

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, George Segal,

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, and

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. She was a voice coach to

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, teaching a German accent, for the picture '' Judgment at Nuremberg''. Garland's performance earned her an

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nomination. She also wrote ''Respect for Acting'' (1973) and ''A Challenge for the Actor'' (1991), which advocate realistic acting (as opposed to pre-determined "formalistic" acting). In her mode of realism, the actor puts his own psyche to use in finding identification with the role," trusting that a form will result.Hagen, Uta 1991. ''A Challenge for the Actor''. New York: Scribner's. In '' Respect for Acting'', Hagen credited director Harold Clurman with a turn-around in her perspective on acting:

In 1947, I worked in a play under the direction of Harold Clurman. He opened a new world in the professional theatre for me. He took away my 'tricks'. He imposed no line readings, no gestures, no positions on the actors. At first I floundered badly because for many years I had become accustomed to using specific outer directions as the material from which to construct the mask for my character, the mask behind which I would hide throughout the performance. Mr Clurman refused to accept a mask. He demanded ME in the role. My love of acting was slowly reawakened as I began to deal with a strange new technique of evolving in the character. I was not allowed to begin with, or concern myself at any time with, a preconceived form. I was assured that a form would result from the work we were doing.

Hagen later "disassociated" herself from her first book, ''Respect for Acting''. In ''Challenge for the Actor'', she redefined a term which she had initially called "substitution", an esoteric technique for alchemizing elements of an actor's life with his/her character work, calling it "transference" instead. Though Hagen wrote that the actor should identify the character he plays with feelings and circumstances from his own life, she also makes clear that:

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters' actions which reveal the character in the play.

''Respect for Acting'' is used as a textbook for many college acting classes. She also wrote a 1976 cookbook, ''Love for Cooking''. In 2002, she was awarded the

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by President George W. Bush at a ceremony held at the

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. In 2001, Hagen agreed to be filmed giving master classes in NYC, LA, Toronto and Chicago by Karen Ludwig and Pennie du Pont, who released the video entitled ''Uta Hagen's Acting Class'', a two-part set that captures her master classes. The video has been thoroughly studied and is now taught in many acting classes.

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talks about studying under her during his

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interview in 2004.

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worked with Hagen in the Richard Alfieri play ''

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'', at the Geffen Playhouse in 2001. Hyde Pierce spoke at her 2004 memorial at Manhattan's Majestic Theater.

Students of Uta Hagen

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* Robert DeNiro * Daniel DeWeldon * Steve McQueen *

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* Gene Hackman * Laura Esterman *

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* Hal Holbrook * Hal Holden * Sandy Dennis * Griffin Dunne * Jeffrey Essmann *

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* Robert LuPone *

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* Barbara Feldon * Tovah Feldshuh * Michael Paré * Katie Finneran * Constance Ford *

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* Anne Meara * Rita Gardner * Charles Nelson Reilly * Lee Grant * Charles Grodin * Eileen Heckart *

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* William Hickey *

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* Anne Jackson *

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* Matthew Broderick * Corey Parker * Whoopi Goldberg * Amanda Peet *

* Ted Brunetti * Lindsay Crouse * Fritz Weaver *

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* Rochelle Oliver * Rene Napoli

Personal life

Uta Hagen was married to José Ferrer from 1938 until 1948. They had one child together, their daughter Leticia (born 15 October 1940). They divorced partly because of Hagen's long-concealed affair with

, her co-star in ''

''. Hagen married Herbert Berghof on 25 January 1957, a union that lasted for 33 years until his death in 1990. Hagen died in

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in 2004 after suffering a stroke in 2001.

In popular culture

Theatre

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from the 1996 award winning and groundbreaking rock opera '' Rent'' written and composed by the late Jonathan Larson "To the stage, To Uta, To

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too."

Work

Stage

* ''

'' (1938) * ''

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'' (1939) * '' Key Largo'' (1939) * '' Vickie'' (1942) * ''

'' (1943) * '' The Whole World Over'' (1947) * ''

'' (1947) * '' The Country Girl'' (1950) * '' Saint Joan'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1954) * '' Island of Goats'' (1955) * '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962) * ''

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'' (1968) * '' You Never Can Tell'' (1986) * ''Charlotte'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1995) * '' Collected Stories'' (1998) * ''

'' (2001)

Film

* ''

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'' (1972) - Ada * '' The Boys from Brazil'' (1978) - Frieda Maloney * '' Reversal of Fortune'' (1990) - Maria * '' Limón: A Life Beyond Words'' (2001) - Narrator

Television

* ''Victory'' (1945, TV Movie) * ''A Month in the Country'' (1959) - Natalia Petrovna * ''The Day Before Sunday'' (1970) - Annamae Whiteley * '' A Doctor's Story'' (1984, TV Movie) - Mrs. Hilda Reiner * ''

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'' (1986) - Gloria (segment "The Library") * ''Seasonal Differences'' (1987) - Omi * ''The Sunset Gang'' (1991) - Sophie (segment "The Home") * ''

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'' (1999) - Maureen (voice) * '' Oz'' (1999) - Mama Rebadow

Awards and nominations

* 1951

, Actress—Play, ''The Country Girl" * 1963

, Actress—Play, ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' * Special 1999

for Lifetime Achievement * 1999 Fellow of the

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* 2002

Hagen was quoted, saying, "Awards don't really mean much."

Quotes

* "Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, 'That's what theatre's about'. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."

References

External links

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