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Uta Hagen

1919 - 2004

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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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Uta Hagen is the 1,181st most popular actor (up from 1,252nd in 2019), the 1,662nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,824th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Actor.

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Among actors, Uta Hagen ranks 1,181 out of 13,578. Before her are Katy Jurado, Geraldine McEwan, Shannon Tweed, John Carradine, Lois Maxwell, and Anne Wiazemsky. After her are Brenda Fricker, Jerry Stiller, Ralph Macchio, Katrina Kaif, Barbara Brylska, and Gunnar Björnstrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Uta Hagen ranks 68. Before her are José Villalonga, Licio Gelli, Charles Sweeney, Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Herzog, and Daniel Bell. After her are Lauri Törni, Glafcos Clerides, Wolfgang Wagner, Kiichi Miyazawa, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Liberace. Among people deceased in 2004, Uta Hagen ranks 63. Before her are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Raymond Goethals, Philippe de Broca, Charles Sweeney, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, and Julia Child. After her are Nino Manfredi, Johnny Ramone, Elmer Bernstein, Richard Avedon, Roque Máspoli, and Nikolai Chernykh.

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Among people born in Germany, Uta Hagen ranks 1,662 out of 7,253. Before her are Marianne Weber (1870), Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751), Christian I, Elector of Saxony (1560), Anne Wiazemsky (1947), Heinz Lammerding (1905), and Gottfried Silbermann (1683). After her are Jürgen Moltmann (1926), Horst Hrubesch (1951), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (1319), and Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Uta Hagen ranks 28. Before her are Hildegard Knef (1925), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Brigitte Helm (1906), Maria Riva (1924), Diane Kruger (1976), and Anne Wiazemsky (1947). After her are Conrad Veidt (1893), Gottfried John (1942), Barbara Sukowa (1950), Otto Sander (1941), William Dieterle (1893), and Kurt Gerron (1897).

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