After leaving Cornell, Phillips began his show business career performing in Broadway and off-Broadway plays – at many different theatres, including the Direct Theatre where he won the Best of the Actors ’ Festival in 1977, the Wonderhorse Theatre in the premier of Christopher Durang ’ s The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, with Ellen Greene, and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of Eccentricities of a Nightingale ( Tennessee Williams helped shape the production, and ended up writing a new monologue for Phillips, which Williams personally dictated to Phillips on tech day when it was realized the leading lady, Jill Eikenberry, needed more time for a dress change ).

He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors ' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.

While living in New York, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

Newman later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

" The Method " was first popularized by the Group Theatre in New York City in the 1930s and subsequently advanced by Lee Strasberg and others at The Actors Studio in the 1940s and 1950s.

In fact, most post-1930 acting philosophies have been strongly influenced by Method acting, and it continues to be taught at schools around the world, including the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and Los Angeles, the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, Calif., HB Studio in New York, Le Studio Jack Garfein in Paris and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Fonda said, " I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent.

This is due in large part to the Actors Studio on West 44th, which rose to prominence under Lee Strasberg and is famed for its method acting style.

She eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg.

Torn then headed to New York where he studied at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg, becoming a prolific stage actor, appearing in the original cast of Tennessee Williams ' play Sweet Bird of Youth, and reprising the role in the film and television adaptations.

* Actors and entertainers including Jane Asher, Ed Byrne, Stephen Fry, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Tim Minchin and Warren Mitchell

Under the leadership of Lee Strasberg, who later joined the Actors Studio and became its director in 1951, what is now referred to as The Method emerged as a lasting force in modern drama.

Method acting appeared when actors and directors like Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, Lee Strasberg, first in the Group Theatre and later in the Actors Studio, applied the Emotional Memory technique from Stanislavski's system.

Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio

Upon returning, she met Lee Strasberg and the meeting changed the course of her life, Fonda saying, " I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent.

But before I got up, I said, ' Lee, I've been asked to run for president of Actors Equity.

He studied drama at University of Illinois and Northwestern University and then went to New York, where he studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

From 1965-67 he travelled to the USA on Harkness Fellowship and studied scriptwriting with Paddy Chayefsky, directing with Martin Ritt and acting with Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio in New York.

He began his acting career with the Sock and Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

Lee received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2006 and 2007, as well as a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.

Actors who appeared in the show prior to becoming famous include Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom, Minnie Driver, Christopher Eccleston, Parminder Nagra, Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, David Walliams, Jonny Lee Miller, Helen Baxendale, Robson Green and Brenda Fricker.

In 1991, he founded the National Actors Theatre ( ultimately housed at Pace University in New York City ) where starred in The Inspector General ( 1994 ), Three Men on a Horse ( 1993 ), and gave his final stage performance in Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are ( If You Think You Are ) in 2003.

To respond to their needs, General Manager Rodney Kirk, an Episcopal minister by training, established social service programs with paid staff and volunteers, and the help of the Actors ' Fund, to care for them and for non-residents.

A photograph of the Hollywood Cricket Club taken at UCLA in 1932 includes H. B Warner ( who Aubrey Smith used to play cricket with for the Actors ' XI in England ), Boris Karloff and Harrow-educated Frank Somerset, who later became Secretary of the Screen Actors ' Guild ( also founded in May 1933 ).

Although its constitution guaranteed its members the right to refuse to work alongside Communists, or a member of a Communist front organization, Actors ' Equity never banned any members.

( Shayne's political activism in the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s was used by his embittered ex-wife as an excuse to label him a Communist, although Shayne had never been a Communist Party member.

He was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had once been a member of the Actors ' Lab, a group with links to the Communist Party.

He presented a six-week engagement at The Flea Theater in New York and has also appeared at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater ( LA and NYC ), The New York International Fringe Festival, The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Aspen Comedy Festival, SketchFest ( San Francisco ), The Revolutions International Theater Festival ( New Mexico ), The Lakeshore Theater ( Chicago ), and in Los Angeles at The Actors Gang, Sit ‘ n Spin, Largo, The Comedy Central Stage, The Steve Allen Theater in Girly Magazine Party and The Rudy Casoni Show and the Sacred Fools Theater Company.

Kansas City Actors Theatre ( KCAT ) presents The Birthday Party, directed by Bruce Roach, in repertory with three Pinter one-acts, The Collection, The Lover and Night, Aug. 16-Sept. 11, 2011.

James Lipton ( born September 19, 1926 ) is an American writer, composer, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City.

The Screen Actors Guild, which normally does not allow two members to have the same name, made an exception for Charles the composer and Charles the performer.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

She was listed as one of twelve " Promising New Actors of 1986 " in John Willis ' Screen World, Vol.

* The Tale of Sweeney Todd ( 1998 ), a television movie directed by John Schlesinger, commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting for which Ben Kingsley received a Screen Actors Guild Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of the title role.

She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich ( 1999 ), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards ( SAG Awards ).

Actors appearing in the film included Saturday Night Lives John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, as well as George Harrison and Mick Jagger.

Her theatrical debut was in the thriller TAG: The Assassination Game ( 1982 ) and as a result, she was listed as one of twelve " Promising New Actors of 1982 " in John Willis ' Screen World, Vol 34.

Actors such as Mickey Rooney, Vincent Price, Alan Alda, Ann Miller, Ben Affleck, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, John Carradine, Leonard Nimoy, Forrest Tucker, Stubby Kaye and Ann B. Davis have done shows there.

* John Timothy Botka, actor Screen Actors Guild ; raised in Plainville

In 2008, he received his first Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie " for his title performance in the HBO miniseries John Adams, a role that also led to a Screen Actors Guild award.

Other notable roles include Mary Elizabeth ( O ' Brien ) Sims on the Lifetime Television drama series Any Day Now ( 1998 – 2002 ), for which she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the first two Toy Story films, a supporting role in the John Hughes's Pretty in Pink as well as guest-starring roles on such CBS's television series as Magnum, P. I., Joan of Arcadia, Close to Home, Two and a Half Men and ABC ' Men in Trees, Ugly Betty and Boston Legal.

Actors who have portrayed Long John Silver in the various motion picture adaptations of Treasure Island include Wallace Beery, Ivo Garrani, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Eddie Izzard, Lance Henriksen, Robert Newton, Anthony Quinn, Tim Curry, Jack Palance, Brian Murray, Oleg Borisov, Boris Andreyev and British actor Ivor Dean in a televised version of the novel.

* Keith Ducklin and John Waller, A Manual for Actors and Directors, Applause Books ( 2001 ), ISBN 1-55783-459-8.

Actors appearing in the most episodes include Patricia Hitchcock ( Alfred Hitchcock's daughter ), Dick York, Robert Horton, James Gleason, John Williams, Robert H. Harris, Russell Collins, Claude Rains, Barbara Baxley, Ray Teal, Percy Helton, Phyllis Thaxter, Carmen Mathews, Mildred Dunnock and Alan Napier.

Actors who have performed at Lakewood include John Travolta, Carol Channing, and Phyllis Diller

After graduation from college in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors ' Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team ( including John Cusack ).

For his charity work with Big Brothers / Big Sisters, Actors and Others for Animals, City of Hope, John Wayne Cancer Society, PETA and dozens more, Fred received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigarosa for “ outstanding humanitarian and philanthropic work helps to further the goal of making the City of Los Angeles a better place .”

She was listed as one of the 12 " Promising New Actors of 1986 " in John Willis ' Screen World, and has since landed numerous film roles.

Actors, Patsy Byrne ( Nursie in the sitcom Blackadder II ), Mark Rylance and Alex Arnold from Skins were born in the area, with other personalities from the town including satirist John Wells from That Was The Week That Was and Bob Holness, a television presenter.

* Listed as one of twelve " Promising New Actors of 1984 " in John Willis ' Screen World, Vol.

Actors John Turturro, Nicholas Turturro, and Natalie Turturro are her cousins.

He was named one of the 12 Promising New Actors of 1992 in John Willis ' Screen World, Vol.