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