Famous Actor
Who was the renowned director, writer, and cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre?
Vladimir Nemerovich-Danchenko
Which one of the greatest English tragic actors, relied on his own forceful and turbulent personality and on sudden transitions of voice and facial expression, and had nothing improvised during his performances, establishing a reputation as the pioneer of representational realism and declamatory acting?
Edmund Kean
He created the first Caribbean album to sell a million copies in America
Harry Belafonte
Which silent film actress stressed the need for imagination over physical beauty?
Laurette Taylor
Which american actress believed that 99% of acting is in the imagination?
Adler
Who was known for being an African American (Creole) actress, dancer, and choreographer, and also received an honorary Doctorate from Julliard?
Carmen de Lavallade
Which Academy Award winning actor is praised by Sir Daniel Day Lewis as one of his inspirations?
Charles Laughton
Which actor/filmmaker from the silent film era was also known as "The Tramp"?
Charlie Chaplin
Which Canadian actor tried to find dynamism in his role of Captain Von Trapp?
Christopher Plummer
Which french comedic actor was famous for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac?
Coquelin
Who was known for performing Shakespeare roles in a very naturalistic way
David Garrick
Which 1800s American Tragic Shakespearean actor belonged to a great family of actors, was slight and dark, with a musical, sympathetic voice and a natural air of reserve, had an acting style, which became increasingly sensitive and subdued, and saved one of Abraham Lincoln's sons, Robert Todd Lincoln's, life?
Edwin Boothe
Which American Shakespearean actor was partially responsible for the Astor Place riots?
Edwin Forrest
Which actress did Stanislavski say personified how he wanted to teach acting?
Eleanora Duse
This director received the Academy Awar for Best Director when he made the film, On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando.
Elia Kazan
This actresses obvious attention to instinct and a character's behavior were concepts that she brought to the forefront of her acting. Her naturalistic style of acting has redefined the way actors approached their portrayal of characters. She became most famous through her Shakespearean work with director and actor Henry Irving. Who is she?
Ellen Terry
Who was one of Stanislavski's most prized pupils and mentor to Michael Chekhov?
Eugene Vakhtangov
Who asserted that the director was "the true artist of the theatre" and, controversially, suggested viewing actors as no more important than marionettes?
Gordon Craig
What director and member of the Group Theatre was known for wanting his actors to throw away their "tricks" and "masks" while performing?
Harold Clurman
Which influential African American actor got his break out role as Edmund Kean's replacement
Ira Aldridge
Who was an innovative and experimental director in the 1960's, based out of Poland? (The great Donna Germain studied with him.)
Jerzy Grotowski
Which actor said, "I guess I have to succumb to the family acting curse."
John Barrymore
He recieved an Oscar for his role in Dudley Moore's "Arthur."
John Gielgud
Who started The Open Theatre?
Joseph Chaikin
Who created the experimental theatre group?
Julian Beck and Judith Molina
He directed, co-wrote, acted in, and produced Citizen Cane
Orson Welles
Which actress was known to learn not only her own lines, but also everyone else's on set?
Katherine Hepburn
His "method acting" is that actors call on their own emotions and experiences and incorporate them into their performances.
Lee Strasberg
Which actor is part of an ongoing Hollywood/Theatre dynasty, had a brother and a sister named Ethel and John, and in his later life, had severe arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair, and incorporated his impediment into his later roles, such as the villain, Mr. Potter, in It's A Wonderful Life?
Lionel Barrymore
Who was the English actor who had a rivalry with Edwin Forrest that caused the Astor Place Opera riots, which killed 20 people?
MacReady
Her role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brody inspired Minerva McGonnagal
Maggie Smith
Which actor, considered to be one of the best of the 20th century, is most famous for his roles in On the Waterfront and The Godfather?
Marlon Brando
Who developed her groundbreaking dance style by experimenting with the movements of contraction and release?
Martha Graham
Who was the most brilliant student of Constantine Stanislavski?
Michael Chekhov
Eliza Doolittle was written for her by Shaw
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Which actor was known as the greatest actor of the victorian age and was portrayed as being brilliant for characterizations that were instinctive rather than intellectually understood?
Sir Henry Irving
Whose honours included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Award, and The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honor?
Olivier
Who had to perform a 90 minute soliloquy in his performance of the play The Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson
Who's Juliet was compared to Olivier's Romeo
Peggy Ashcroft
He was influenced by Artuad and believed in actions over text. He did away with conventional methods of acting and staging.
Peter Brook
Which extremely charismatic actor became successful after his role in Laurence of Arabia?
Peter O'Toole
Which character actor was known for being detached from the convential ways of looking at the world?
Ralph Richardson
This actresses name was actually Elizabeth Felix and she was a French classical actress who dominated the Comedie-Francaise for 17 years
Raquel
Who had a very close relationship with William Shakespeare, and was the first to play many of
Richard Burbage
Which actor was best known for both his powerful voice and oration skills and also his alcoholism?
Richard Burton
Who was the Meisner trained actor who studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse and firmly believed "being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
Robert Duvall
Who had the goal to replicate the ensemble feeling that was present in the Group Theatre when he co-founded the Actors Studio
Robert Lewis
Who was the first known woman to play Hamlet?
Sarah Bernhardt
Which great English tragic actress' performance of Lady Macbeth was said to have portrayed "passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified"?
Sarah Siddons
Who used acting as a way to break down racial barriers within the entertainment industry, especially during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was also the first black make to win an Oscar?
Sidney Poitier
Who said, "I can make an audience weep by reading a menu"?
Tommaso Salvini
Which famous clown was known for being a part of the chamberlains men playing many of Shakespeare's famous comedic parts?
William Kempe