Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German and 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, 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 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 Konstantin Stanislavski and Yevgeny Vakhtangov. She was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. Description above from the Wikipedia article Uta Hagen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• King of the Hill — Maureen (voice)
• Oz — Mama Rebadow
• 1991The Sunset Gang — Sophie (segment "The Home")
• 1990Reversal of Fortune — Maria
• 1987Seasonal Differences — Omi
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "The Library")
• 1984A Doctor's Story — Mrs. Hilda Reiner
• American Playhouse — Sophie (segment 'The Home')
• 1978The Boys from Brazil — Frieda Maloney
• Lou Grant
• ABC Afterschool Special — Omi
• 1972The Other — Ada
• CBS Playhouse — Annamae Whiteley
• NET Playhouse

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2004Uta Hagen's Acting Class — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 1999Paul Robeson: Here I Stand — Self / Desdemona in 'Othello' (voice)
• Intimate Portrait — Self