Sandra Seacat, Actress and ‘Revolutionary’ Acting Coach, Dies at 86
thewrap.com“She met the discovery of character and story with equal protectiveness, irreverence, humility and grace. She taught us the practice of investigating healing through acting,” added Dern. “But more than that.
She invited us to know ourselves as artists and humans in ways I could’ve never begun to explore without her. She’s been my teacher since age 17 and I had the honor of acting alongside her several times.
She is my whole heart.”“Sandra impacted and inspired my life in ways that only God could have orchestrated,” said Common. “Her love for people, her love for life, her love [for] acting let me know, as she would always tell me, ‘You can heal people through your work as an actor, you can inspire people through your work as an actor.’ And that truly made me see the higher purpose in the art that I do.”Seacat was born on Oct.
2, 1936 in Greensburg, Kansas on October 2, 1936. After graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she headed to New York City where she joined Lee Strasberg’s prestigious Actors Studio.She went on to become an innovative, in-demand teaching coach of her own and counted Mickey Rourke, Aaron Eckhart, Meg Ryan, Misha Baryshnikov, Isabella Rossellini, Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Peter Falk, Shia LaBeouf, and Martin Henderson among her many students.
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