Biography Of Stella Adler
Real Name
Stella Adler
Profession
Directors, Actresses, Theater Personalities
Famous as
American Actress & Acting Teacher
Nationality
American
Religion
Jewish
Personal life of Stella Adler
Born on
10 February 1901
Birthday
10th February
Died At Age
91
Sun Sign
Aquarius
Born in
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died on
21 December 1992
Place of death
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Grouping of People
Jewish Actresses
Father
Jacob P. Adler
Mother
Sara adler
Spouses/Partners
Mitchell A. Wilson (m.1973), Horace Eliascheff,, Harold Clurman
Children
Ellen Adler
Founder/Co-Founder
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Personal Fact of Stella Adler
American actress Stella Adler was one of the foremost influences on contemporary acting, who dedicated her life to understanding theatre. A prodigious child, acting ran in her blood and veins as she was born to Yiddish theatre actors, Jacob and Sarah Adler. Making her stage debut at the age of four, Stella Adler soon found her way to the top. She starred in numerous plays in her home production, Independent Yiddish Art Company and later on featured herself in Broadway and Hollywood as well. Interestingly, Adler was luckily the chosen few who got a chance to work with the legendary Russian actor and director, Konstantin Stanislavski.
He was not only a major influence on her but changed her line of belief thus, exchanging method acting for emotional content. In 1949, she founded Stella Adler Studio of Acting. The aim behind the foundation was to impart the best of what she had learned at Yiddish Theatre, Broadway, Hollywood and Stanislavsky.
She was instrumental in teaching famous personalities of the future including Marlon Brando, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Dolores del RÃo, Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Martin Sheen, Manu Tupou, Harvey Keitel, Melanie Griffith, Peter Bogdanovich and Warren Beatty. Interestingly, even after more than half a century after its foundation, her teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting has dominated the American acting till date.
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