Lee Strasberg: Last News

The Hollywood Reporter. A cause of death has not yet been announced.

Britney Spears revealed in an excerpt from her upcoming book, “The Woman in Me,” that she unknowingly slipped into method acting while filming the 2002 drama-comedy “Crossroads.” “My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind,” Spears, 41, wrote in an excerpt obtained by People. “I think I started Method acting — only I didn’t know how to break out of my character. “I really became this other person.

Created in the 1930s by Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, method acting is one of the most popular techniques used by actors to fully embody the characters they are portraying.

Mark Margolis, a veteran actor with hundreds of credits dating back to the 1970s but perhaps best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of cartel don Hector “Tio” Salamanca on TV’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City following a short illness. He was 83.

died. He was 89.The actor's daughter, Dinneen Coster, shared the news on social media.«There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital,” Dinneen wrote on Facebook.

“All The President’s Men” and “All My Children” actor Nicolas Coster died on Monday at a Florida hospital.He was 89.His daughter Dinneen Coster shared the tragic news on Facebook, penning: “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital.”“Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor,” she went on. “I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father,” she wrote.The British-American screen star’s cause of death has yet to be released.Coster was born in London to a British mother and a father from New Zealand.

wrote Friday. “Thank you to all of his fans and friends for all their support these last few months.”She continued: “He was a remarkable actor, and a brilliant human being, and I was lucky to have him in my life.

with vocal cancer in 2009.Born in 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, Newman was first inspired to pursue acting after taking a course with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg while at Brandeis University. After graduating and serving in the army, he then moved to New York City to study under Strasberg.He starred in several plays, including Mel Tolkin’s “Maybe Tuesday” and Agatha Christie’s “The Mouse Trap,” before turning his attention to the big screen.

McKinley Franklin editor Barry Newman, the Emmy-nominated actor who starred in the 1971 cult action thriller “Vanishing Point” and as the eponymous lawyer in the NBC series “Petrocelli,” died on May 11. He was 92. No further details are currently available on his death. In “Vanishing Point,” Newman played former race car driver Kowalski, a speedster that darts around in a Dodge Challenger after becoming entangled in a criminal conspiracy. The film is regarded as one of the defining American action films of the ’70s by genre enthusiasts. Two decades and change later, Newman would play a heavy in Steven Soderbergh’s fractured crime yarn “The Limey,” which featured a second act car chase involving the actor getting back behind the wheel.

Tony-winning actress Melinda Dillon, best known for her starring role in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has passed away at 83. The two-time Oscar nominee's family confirmed in an obituary that she died on January 9, but no cause of death has been revealed at this time. Over her legendary career in Hollywood, the star, who was born in Hope,  Arkansas earned a nod for Best Supporting Actress twice at the Academy Awards. Her acting credits in film, television and on Broadway span more than four decades.In addition to a memorable role as Ralphie’s high-strung mother, A Christmas Story, she famously won a Tony for her Broadway debut in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Passed away: Tony-winning actress Melinda Dillon, best known for her starring role in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has passed away at 83In 1976, she admitted that the intense play made her 'go crazy' and she spent time in a psychiatric hospital. 'I was in Virginia Woolf, and I just went crazy; it was really that simple,' she told the New York Times, at the time. She continued: 'We had to have a whole different cast for that, but I was called in to do it many, many times because the gal would get sick. I would do it three hours in the afternoon, then study with Lee Strasberg for two hours, and do the play three hours at night...

Sandra Seacat, a longtime New York and Hollywood acting teacher whose students would become or already were some of the biggest names in the business – Andrew Garfield, Jessica Lange, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel, Michelle Williams and Common, to choose just a sampling, died of natural causes Wednesday surrounded by loved ones in Santa Monica. She was 87.

Second generation Hollywood royalty. Jane Fonda comes from a family of actors, but she quickly made a name for herself and became an icon in her own right.

Michaela Zee editor Joan Hotchkis, veteran stage and screen actor known for ABC’s “The Odd Couple” and “Legacy,” died Sept. 27 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, according to her daughter Paula Chambers. She was 95. Hotchkis starred opposite William Windom in the NBC sitcom “My World and Welcome to It,” and played the on-again/off-again girlfriend of Jack Klugman’s Oscar Madison in “The Odd Couple.” As a playwright, she wrote 1974’s “Legacy,” a one-woman play about an upper-class housewife who deteriorates mentally. The following year, she wrote and starred in the film adaptation of “Legacy,” which won the best newcomer award at the Tehran International Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Actors Studio with special screenings and in-person conversations on Sunday nights in August and September. Of course, the studio is the thespian mecca and home to so many in the profession looking to hone their craft and work out their approach to their art. The guru teacher most associated with it was the great Lee Strasberg, and it even had its own long-running TV series Inside The Actors Studio in which so many stars came back to share secrets of success that had to much to do with the teaching of Method acting, or at least that was how it was labeled.

Succession’s Jeremy Strong, and Spider-Man star Andrew is on board – but he says there are plenty of misconceptions about it. The actor, who played Sebastião Rodrigues, a role based on a real-life Jesuit priest, in Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film, said he was celibate for six months and also fasted. He said: ‘It was very cool, man.

Gerome Ragni, who had participated in that off-Broadway ideological maelstrom with Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre and Ellen Stewart’s La Mama. Rado was already writing songs and acting in New York – he had appeared on Broadway in 1963 in June Havoc’s play Marathon ’33, about the dance marathons in the Depression era, supervised by the acting guru Lee Strasberg – when, in 1964, he met Ragni as a fellow off-Broadway cast member in the British hit protest revue (about capital punishment) from Oxford University, Hang Down Your Head and Die, devised by David Wright and staged by Braham Murray.

according to Deadline. “There was a wonderful warmth in the hippie atmosphere, a sense of freedom,” Rado said in a 2008 interview about the musical for which he co-wrote the book and lyrics with partner Gerome Ragni.

A staggering collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia will be put up on auction later this month by Julien's and TCM.News of the Marilyn items began circulating this Wednesday on what would have been the late screen icon's 96th birthday.The treasures on offer include a note Marilyn wrote to her legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg and a saucy bodysuit she wore in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Incoming: A staggering collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia is set to go on auction, including these sexy bodysuits she and Jane Russell wore in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Her black leotard from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was covered in glittering sequins and accented with colorful floral trim.Marilyn and her co-star Jane Russell wear matching versions of this outfit when their characters in the film work as showgirls in Paris.

Marilyn Monroe’s birthday is definitely something to celebrate.The Hollywood icon would have been 96 on June 1 and to commemorate the milestone, Julien’s Auction is selling her personal effects and memorabilia.Fans will be able to bid on items such as her film costumes, jewelry, photographs, handwritten notes, files and other relics from her life and career.In conjunction with Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the auction — titled “Hollywood Legends” — will be carried out in Beverly Hills, Calif. from July 15 to July 17.The collection features keepsakes from Monroe’s famous films such as “How To Marry A Millionaire,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Some Like It Hot,” “Bus Stop,” “Let’s Make Love” and “The Misfits.”Some pieces that will be auctioned off include her black satin sequined leotard she wore in the 1953 comedy “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and her pale pink silk blouse worn in “Let’s Make Love” in 1960.The blonde bombshell’s 19th-century-style bodice from a 1956 Jack Cardiff photo session will also be sold off to the highest bidder.Handwritten memos Monroe penned during her film sessions and acting classes will be going for quite a pretty penny.

“The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act” (out Feb. 1), theater historian Isaac Butler reveals how the Actors Studio, under the direction of the acclaimed late acting teacher Lee Strasberg, went on to shape the modern world’s most influential performers.Butler told The Post that despite what “method acting” has come to signify in pop culture — transforming yourself for a role, à la Daniel Day Lewis or Jared Leto, and living as that character for months or even years — it’s actually something entirely different.

Created in the 1930s by Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, method acting is one of the most popular techniques used by actors to fully embody the characters they are portraying.