Sandra Diane Seacat (born October 2, 1936) is an American actress, director and

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best known for her innovations in acting pedagogy—blending elements of Strasberg, and Jungian dream analysis"The Role of Their Dreams"
''The New York Times''. May 6, 2009.—and for a handful of coaching success stories."This Rising Star Has an Identity Problem"
''Newsday''. June 29, 1984. See also: * Taylor, Clarke
"Mickey Rourke: Straight On: A Painful Past Is Valuable Prologue to an Acting Career Aimed at Making 'Uncompromising Movies With Good Characters'; Mickey Rourke: Past As Prologue"
''Los Angeles Times''. July 24, 1984.Schruers, Fred

''Los Angeles Times''. October 5, 2003. ttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/laura-dern-her-legendary-acting-774635 "Laura Dern and Her Legendary Acting Coach: "We Can Say Anything to Each Other" ''Hollywood Reporter''. February 27, 2015.

Early life and career

Seacat was the first of three daughters born to Russell Henry and Lois Marion Seacat in

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."Obituary: Lois Marion Seacat"
. HutchNews.com. December 23, 2007. Involved in theatre from her mid-teens on,“Sandra Seacat”
Schott Acting Studio. Seacat first focused on

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while attending

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,Hampton, Edna
"Actresses Develop Tension-Shredding Skills"
''The Globe and Mail''. April 12, 1968. earning her degree and relocating to

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, where she studied with

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alumnus

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and later at the Studio with its director

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. Seacat first attracted attention—as Sandra Kaufman, her then married name—in July 1962, in the Barnard-

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Summer Theater production of Somerset Maugham's ''The Noble Spaniard''. Despite finding the play "rather silly,” ''Back Stage'''s reviewer "found particular pleasure in Sandra Kaufman's characterization." She appeared once more that summer, this time under Michael Howard's direction, in the US premiere of

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's ''The Waltz of the Dogs''.“Opening This Week: ‘Saint Joan,’ ‘Dybbuk’ Ready”
‘’The Atlanta Journal and Constitution’’. October 10, 1965. Amidst a generally favorable review, ''Back Stage'' reserved "bouquets" for Kaufman and 2 others, while ''

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'' predicted, “Miss Kaufman’s appetizing warmth sdestined to bring many future stages alive.” The following winter, an eventful few hours—attaining both Actors Studio membership and first-time motherhoodGray, Tom
“Shaw's St. Joan a Role She Loves, Sandra Says”
''The Atlanta Journal and Constitution''. October 7, 1965.—gave rise to roughly 2 years of seeming inactivity, a notable exception being Kaufman’s

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debut, a small part in the Actors Studio production of

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’s ''Three Sisters''. Her full-fledged return came on October 12, 1965, in Atlanta’s Community Playhouse (again under Howard’s direction), when, having beaten out

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for the title role in

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’s ''Saint Joan'', Kaufman's portrayal was described by ''The Journal-Constitution'' as "a masterpiece of suave speech and faultless timing

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enhances the lyrical quality of Shaw's lines." "Kaufman," it continues, "is both saint and genius; her portrayal leaves nothing to be desired." After resuming her studies in New York,"As Sandra Kaufman"
University of Wisconsin Digital Collection. Kaufman again collaborated with her former teacher, along with

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, Tom Aldredge and Chicago import Mina Kolb, to form the Second City Revue – a short-lived New York offshoot of the like-named Chicago-based improvisational troupe. On June 5, 1966, the

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series ''Directions '66'' featured the group. Between 1968 and 1970, Seacat appeared in regional theater in Toronto, Atlanta and New Orleans. Under her married name, she lived in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.

Teaching

During the 1970s, Seacat taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute,

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's Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts, the Actors Studio, and she taught privately. Among her clients were

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,"Film Forum Faculty"
. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. U. of Arkansas System.

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,Smith, Gavin
"Don't Let That Go: That's Valuable"
''Film Comment''. September/October 1993. Vol. 29 Issue 5, p. 54.

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and

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, who later said of his time with Seacat, "That's when everything started to click." Over the next decade, while teaching in New York and Los Angeles, Seacat was credited with a number of such breakthroughs, including those of Jessica Lange,Holston, Mark
"Critic's Choice"
''Minneapolis Star-Tribune''. June 12, 1996.Associated Press
"Casting Gamble in ''Thorn Birds''"
''The Nashua Telegraph''. March 29, 1983.Smith, Liz. "Elaine May gathers quality cast together for her next movie". ''The Orange County Register''. December 1, 1988. "The director was an interesting choice: Sandra Seacat, acting coach and guru to many stars. (Sandra is credited with helping Jessica Lange to her Oscar and Marlo Thomas to her Emmy."

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. During this period, she also helped pioneer the practice of dream work, in which actors study and play characters from their dreams. Among those studying the technique was Seacat's daughter, Greta, who went on to become an acting coach. In addition, actresses

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and

Gina Gershon Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American actress. She has had roles in the films ''Cocktail'' (1988), ''Red Heat'' (1988), '' Showgirls'' (1995), '' Bound'' (1996), '' Face/Off'' (1997), '' The Insider'' (1999), '' Demonlover'' (2002 ...

publicly credited Seacat's use of the dream method with improving their craft.Goldstein, Patrick
"Many-Sided Melanie Griffith"
''The Los Angeles Times''. November 10, 1986."I Dream of Gina"
. ''

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'', September/October 1998. Also attending those classes were future Songwriter's HOF inductee

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, then a self-professed "fly on the wall" alongside Lange, Rourke,

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and others. Speaking in 2018 with '' Music & Musicians'', he gratefully acknowledged Seacat's mentorship, noting the correlation between her early efforts at linking text to actor and Child's later knack for matching song to singer. Similarly, Child embraced Seacat's vision of the artist as a "wounded healer" and the audience "a co-creator hoheals through that process." "As songwriters," Child concurred, "we have a sacred job to help them connect.""Songwriter Desmond Child: Video Feature and Web-Exclusive Interview"
'' Music & Musicians''. April 2018. Acting teacher Alex Cole Taylor in 2010 told ''

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'' that Seacat taught him compassion for his students."L.A. Readers' Choice: Classes and Coaches"
''Backstage''. June 23, 2010. In 2012, CNN's profile of acting coach

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coupled Seacat with

as "legendary acting coaches." Longtime Seacat student

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, speaking at the January 2012

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presentation, thanked "Sandra Seacat,

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, ndeverybody who's ever inspired any of us" at the conclusion of her acceptance speech for Best Actress. In 2012 and 2013, Seacat was a faculty member at the annual Film Forum hosted by the

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's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, organized by fellow Actors Studio alumnus Robert Walden. While Seacat has always shunned publicity, both for her own sake and that of her clients,Parker, Corey
"Focus: Sandra Seacat; Simply Untouchable"
The Actor's Work. December 2012. she has gone on record regarding a few of her more famously self-proclaimed students such as Jessica Lange, Mickey Rourke, Meg Ryan and, on multiple occasions, Laura Dern, whose longstanding relationship with Seacat is the subject of an article and the accompanying video published by ''

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'' in February 2015. In February 2018, Seacat and her husband Thurn Hoffman were featured among more than 20 couples seen in the

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for Night Things'

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' 1959 hit " (Till) I Kissed You."

Directing

Seacat has directed one movie, '' In the Spirit'', shot in 1988, released in April 1990, and starring Marlo Thomas and

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. The year-plus gap between

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and

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saw one previously announced cast member,

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, end on the cutting room floor, as well as the addition of what ''

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'' later termed "the stupid framing device of a mystical narrator,""Film Reviews: In the Spirit"
''Variety''. April 4, 1990. presumably inserted in hopes of patching over rough spots in the narrative, in particular the dramatic shift in tone occurring midway through the film. That any such hopes had gone unrealized was the general consensus amongst critics, who were nonetheless divided between those who found such flaws forgivable—such as ''

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'' ("An Endearing Mess") or Hal Hinson of ''

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'' ("disjointed utdeliciously addlebrained")—and those who did not, such as

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, who dubbed ''In the Spirit'' "a nervous new-age comedy more notable for good intentions than good luck," and the ''

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'', which noted that what begins as "a richly comic" vehicle for Ms. May abruptly "crumbles around her at roughly its halfway point." ''Variety'', however, perceived a method to ''Spirit's'' messiness, "a throwback to the looser, madcap '60s," featuring "big name talent orking ona low budget" to make a "pic freed of mainstream good taste and gloss." In August 2007, Seacat, with Jamie Wollrab, directed her daughter, Greta Seacat, along with

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and

Johnny Lewis Jonathan Kendrick Lewis (October 29, 1983 – September 26, 2012), also credited as Johnny K. Lewis, was an American film and television actor. He played Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in the first two seasons of the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'', and o ...

in Elizabeth Meriwether's play ''The Mistakes Madeline Made'' at the Dairy Center for the Arts in

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Filmography

Film

Television

Students of Sandra Seacat

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Solomon, Linda Ilene (June 8, 1993)
"A Vietnam Movie Through a Different Lens"
''International Herald Tribune''. June 8, 1993. "Disenchanted with Hollywood and frustrated by the limited roles available for Shakespearean-trained Asian-American actresses, Alexandra took the advice of her acting teacher, Sandra Seacat, who told her she'd find 'all the power in the universe' in going back to her roots." * Roseanna ArquetteRea, Steven
"She acts in a way that garners raves"
''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. April 5, 1985. *

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Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Барышников, p=mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf; lv, Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet Latvian-born Russian-American dancer, choreograp ...

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Silverman, Jason
"Cine Cafe on Bender: Producer guests at CSF"
''The Santa Fe New Mexican''. March 29, 1996. "A former member of Maine State Ballet, Bender began studying acting after a dance injury ended his career. He took classes with renowned coach Sandra Seacat, working with actors-in-training including Jessica Lange, Mickey Rourke, Mario Thomas and Christopher Reeve." *

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"Acting Through Dreams"
JessicaSueBurstein.com. January 10, 2013. * Stefano Zanchetti *

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* Hélène Cardona"Hélène Cardona: The TNB Self-Interview"
TNB. November 22, 2016. *

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"Carter tackles the wonders of history". ''USA Today''. August 15, 1994. " e started commuting to New York to meet with acting coach Sandra Seacat, who also works with Melanie Griffith, Marlo Thomas and Tatum O'Neal. 'The experience was "better than any therapist,' she says. 'You strip yourself of ego, and the whole experience unearths all your analytical feelings and self-discovery.'" *

* Scott CoffeyParker, Corey
"Interview: Scott Coffey on Directing 'Adult World'"
The Actor's Work. February 2013. *

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* Rebecca DeMornay *

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* Frances Fisher * Joely FisherFischer, Joely; Myers, Marc
"Playlist: Joely Fisher: A Far-Off Father"
''The Wall Street Journal''. January 27, 2018. *

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* Jessica Lange * Peggy Lipton * Melanie Mayron *

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* Chris Pine *

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* Meg Ryan"Campion, Jane: In the Cut"
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