Actors Studio Original Member Was 98
Vivian Nathan, an Original Member of the Actors Studio Who Appeared in the First Broadway Productions of Tennessee Williams‘ the Rose Tattoo and Camino Real...
Vivian Nathan, an original member of The Actors Studio who appeared in the first Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams‘ The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real, has died. She was 98.
A native of New York, Nathan won the John Golden auditions for new talent and made her Broadway debut in 1949 in Montserrat, written by Lillian Hellman. In 1951, she played opposite Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach and Martin Balsam in The Rose Tattoo and worked again with Balsam in Camino Real, directed by Kazan.
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She received the 1955 Clarence Derwent Award for her portrayal of the Charwoman in Anastasia, played a Holocaust survivor in 1966’s The Investigation and appeared with Anne Bancroft in 1977’s Golda, directed by Arthur Penn.
Nathan made her film debut in Teacher’s Pet (1958) with Clark Gable. She was in The Young Savages (1961) with Burt Lancaster and played Tony Curtis‘ mother in The Outsider (1961).
On television, she was a regular on the live Studio One in Hollywood in the 1950s and appeared on Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kojak and The Equalizer.
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