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Name
  
Kristin Linklater

Children
  
Hamish Linklater

Role
  
Vocal coach

Grandchildren
  
Lucinda Rose Linklater

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Born
  
22 April 1936 (age 87) (
1936-04-22
)
UK

Residence
  
New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation
  
Actress, director, author, vocal coach, acting teacher

Website
  
www.KristinLinklater.com

Parents
  
Eric Linklater, Marjorie Linklater

Siblings
  
Andro Linklater, Magnus Linklater, Alison Linklater

Books
  
Freeing the Natural Voice: Im, Freeing Shakespeare's voice, Freeing the Natural Voice

Similar People
  
Andro Linklater, Hamish Linklater, Eric Linklater, Magnus Linklater, Veronica Linklater - Baroness

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Kristin Linklater (born 22 April 1936) is a Scottish vocal coach, dialect coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author. She is currently Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University.

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Biography

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Brought up in the Orkney Isles, Scotland, Linklater trained with Bertram Joseph and Iris Warren at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). During the 1960s, she relocated to the United States and worked with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.

Educated at St Leonards School.

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Linklater was a founding member in 1973 of Shakespeare & Company which was for many years in residence on the former estate of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts. Linklater and several British-trained American actors founded the acting troupe of the same name, Shakespeare & Company. She served as co-director, with Tina Packer. She left in the mid 1990s to develop her own approach to voice for actors, influenced by her teachers at LAMDA as well as the Alexander Technique. Her work is designed to liberate the natural function of the vocal mechanism as opposed to developing a vocal technique. Her writings on voice include Freeing the Natural Voice (1976) (ISBN 0-89676-071-5) and Freeing Shakespeare's Voice (1992); (ISBN 1-55936-031-3). She is of part Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater.

Linklater has trained many well-known actors, including Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Murray, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Bernadette Peters. Linklater was a teacher and head of the Acting program at Emerson College from 1990–1996.

Her son is actor Hamish Linklater, who appeared on the CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones. Her father was novelist Eric Linklater, and her mother was social activist, Marjorie Linklater (nee MacIntyre). Her brothers Magnus and Andro Linklater are writers. She has a sister, Alison, who is a painter.

References

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