Emerging from Buffalo, New York, she honed her craft at the Studio Theatre School, earned a degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, and refined her technique at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City. Her professional stage debut came in 1946, followed by a Broadway appearance in The Taming of the Shrew (1951); she later collected two Obie Awards for The Balcony and The Cock…
