Paula Strasberg

Paula Strasberg Biography

Paula Miller Strasberg (1909 " April 29, 1966) was a former stage actress who became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife, mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.

Career

Her first Broadway credit, as Paula Miller, was in 1927, appearing in The Cradle Song. She appeared in more than 20 more stage roles until Me and Molly in 1948.

A life member of The Actors Studio, Strasberg was blacklisted for her membership in the American Communist Party, although her husband was not and apparently suffered no adverse effects on his career. Paula Strasberg would go on to become Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante until Monroe's death in 1962.

Personal life

Her children John Strasberg and Susan Strasberg were also actors. Susan Strasberg described her mother as a "combination delicatessen, pharmacist, Jewish mother".

Death

Strasberg died of cancer in 1966 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

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