Acting
Born
1926-02-24 · 100 yrs
From
Rochester, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Jean Alexander began her acting career while in high school in Rochester. Soon after graduation she joined Stanley Woolf's Civic Drama Guild of New York for a car-and-truck tour of "Junior Miss" (1945) and just months after WWII she was touring the South Pacific in "Petticoat Fever" with the USO. In New York, she trained as an actor with such luminaries as Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, and became a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio in 1951. Jean played on, off, and off-off Broadway. She was featured in several films, including the noir classic "The Mob (1951)". Her TV credits include most golden-era prime-time drama anthologies, including The United States Steel Hour (1953), The Philco Television Playhouse (1948), Kraft Theatre (1947), and Studio One in Hollywood (1948), as well as serials such as "Decoy (1957)", "Martin Kane (1949)", "Ryan's Hope (1975)", and "Quincy M.E.…
