Uta Hagen, German-American actress and educator (died 2004)

Uta Hagen

American actress and teacher (1919–2004)

Uta Thyra Hagen 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…