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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."
Hagen received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and set designer Boris Aronson won for Best Scenic Design. [3] The play was subsequently remounted on Broadway twice, [4] in 1972 with Maureen Stapleton and Jason Robards, [5] and in 2008, with Frances McDormand and Morgan Freeman. [6]
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946.
Frances Sternhagen, a Tony-winning actress with many decades on the stage and screen, died Monday of natural causes in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was known for her recurring role as the regal ...
Frances Sternhagen, a character actress best known for her Tony-winning work on stage as well as recurring roles on shows like Sex and the City and Cheers, died at her home in New Rochelle, New ...
Tony-winning actress Frances Sternhagen, best known to TV audiences as Cliff Clavin’s mother on Cheers and Dr. Carter’s grandmother on ER, died Monday. She was 93. Sternhagen’s death was ...
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality leading roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.