Konstantin Stanislavsky

Russian actor and director

Also known as: Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseyev, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky(Show More)

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Konstantin Stanislavsky (born January 5 [January 17, New Style], 1863, Moscow, Russia—died August 7, 1938, Moscow) was a Russian actor, director, and producer, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre (opened 1898). He is best known for developing the system or theory of acting called the Stanislavsky system, or Stanislavsky method. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on Stanislavsky.) Stanislavsky’s father was a manufacturer, and his mother was the daughter of a French actress. Stanislavsky first...