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Uta Hagen (12 June 1919 - 14 January 2004) was an
United States|American stage actress and acting
teacher.

She was born in Göttingen in Germany and raised
in Madison, Wisconsin. She studied acting at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. 

She was primarily noted for stage roles. Because
of blacklisting, she had more limited output in
film, not making her cinematic debut until 1972.
She married José Ferrer in 1938; they divorced in
1948. They had one daughter. She taught at HB
Studios, a well-known New York City acting school,
 starting in 1957, and married its co-founder,
Herbert Berghof, on 25 January 1957.  After his
death in 1990 she became the school's chairman.

Mrs. Hagen was an influential acting teacher. 
Among her students have been Matthew Broderick,
Christine Lahti, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver,
Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Al
Pacino and Benicio Del Toro.

She also wrote Respect for Acting, which advocates
presentational acting, for example through the use
of substitution (theatre)|substitution.

==Acting==
===Stage===
*The Seagull - 1938
*The Happiest Days - 1939
*Key Largo (movie)|Key Largo - 1939
*Vickie - 1942
*Othello - 1943
*The Whole World Over - 1947
*A Streetcar Named Desire - 1947
*The Country Girl - 1950 (Tony Award)
*Saint Joan - 1951
*In Any Language - 1952
*The Magic and The Loss - 1954
*Island of Goats - 1955
*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- 1962 -(Tony
Award)
*The Cherry Orchard - 1968
*You Never Can Tell - 1986
*Charlotte - 1980
*Mrs. Klein
*Collected Stories - 1998

===Film===
*The_Other - 1972
*The Boys from Brazil - 1978
*A Doctor's Story - 1984
*Reversal of Fortune - 1990
*Limón: A Life Beyond Words - 2001

===Television===
*Victory - 1945
*A Month in the Country - 1959
*The Day Before Sunday - 1970
*Seasonal Differences - 1987
*The Sunset Gang - 1991
*Oz (television series)|Oz - guest appearance,
1999