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Maria Ouspenskaya (Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya) was born on 29 July, 1876 in Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia], is an actress,soundtrack. Discover Maria Ouspenskaya's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya
Occupation actress,soundtrack
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July, 1876
Birthday 29 July
Birthplace Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Date of death 3 December, 1949
Died Place Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality Russia

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Maria Ouspenskaya Height, Weight & Measurements

At 73 years old, Maria Ouspenskaya height is 5' 1½" (1.56 m) .

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Height 5' 1½" (1.56 m)
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Dating & Relationship status

She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.

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Maria Ouspenskaya Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Maria Ouspenskaya worth at the age of 73 years old? Maria Ouspenskaya’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from Russia. We have estimated Maria Ouspenskaya's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Actress

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1887

Her gravestone at Forest Lawn Cemetery gives her year of birth as 1887, instead of the correct year of 1876.

1911

An actor/instructor with Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre beginning in 1911, she toured throughout Europe during the Communist Revolution and appeared in over 100 plays. When the company departed for Moscow after a tour in the United States, she remained behind.

1920

Taught acting at New York's American Laboratory Theatre in the 1920s until forming her own acting school, the Maria Ouspenskaya School of Dramatic Arts, in 1929. She moved the studio to Hollywood in the late 1930s when her film career began to flourish. Some of her more famous students included John Garfield and acting gurus Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg.

1922

The daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring in the Russian provinces. She later joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, whose "Method" she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and, upon their return to Moscow, defected to the US to become a dominant Broadway actress for more than a decade until she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York in 1929.

1930

Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012).

1931

Co-founder of the American Laboratory Theater with Polish actor/director Richard Boleslawski, she was the first Russian actor from the Moscow Art Theatre to teach the Stanislavski Method in the United States. Her methods greatly influenced her young students Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, founders of the Group Theater (1931-40). Strasberg first practiced his very personal variation of the system, now known as "The Method," with the Group actors Stella Adler, Luther Adler, Sanford Meisner, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Franchot Tone, Morris Carnovsky, John Garfield and Robert Lewis. Adler went on to teach Marlon Brando; Meisner taught Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton; Lewis taught Meryl Streep. What the world knows as the psychologically realistic American acting style can be traced back to the enduring influence of Madame Ouspenskaya.

1936

It was to help keep the school funded that she accepted her first Hollywod film, Dodsworth (1936). She had appeared in six silent movies in Russia earlier in her career. This lucrative association, for Ouspenskaya, Hollywood and the viewing public, would last for more than a dozen years and two dozen films. Thanks to her often-superior demeanor and addiction to astrology, she could prove maddening on the set. She remained in nearly daily communication with L. A. Times' astrologer Carroll Righter who would advise her on the best times to appear on camera along with when and where to travel. As a consequence, most casts and crews disliked the over-bearing, wispy 90-pound actress intensely.

1939

She bounced between prestigious A-pictures (Love Affair (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940)) and B-movies (Mystery of Marie Roget (1942), Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)), performing, and behaving, with equal intensity.

1941

She is especially notable for having appeared in the last great Universal horror entry, The Wolf Man (1941) and the interesting Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).

2018

Is mentioned in Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018) as Sal Getty's favorite actress.