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Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American actor, director and acting teacher.  He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective".  In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school".  In 1969, Strasberg founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and in Hollywood to teach the work he pioneered. He is considered the "father of method acting in America," according to author Mel Gussow, and from the 1920s until his death in 1982 "he revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theater and movies".  From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.  Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden (1955), for which Kazan and Dean were nominated for Academy Awards. As a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was "the greatest school of the theater [and] the best thing that can happen to an actor".  Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasberg's actors, "They act from the inside out. They communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life." Directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasberg's "Method".  Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, "He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [H]e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them 'permanent.'"  :61 Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights, and directors.

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李·斯特拉斯伯格（Lee Strasberg，1901年11月17日-1982年2月17日）是美国演员、导演和表演老师。1931年，他与导演哈罗德·克鲁曼（Harold Clurman）和谢丽尔·克劳馥（Cheryl Crawford）共同创立了团体剧院，该剧院被誉为“美国第一个真正的戏剧团体”。1951年，他成为纽约市非营利性演员工作室的主任，该工作室被认为是“美国最负盛名的表演学校”。1969年，斯特拉斯伯格在纽约市和好莱坞创立了李·斯特拉斯伯格戏剧和电影学院，以教授他开创的作品。根据作家梅尔·古索（Mel Gussow）的说法，他被认为是“美国方法表演之父”，从1920年代到1982年去世，“他通过对美国戏剧和电影的表演产生深远影响，彻底改变了表演艺术”。在纽约的基地，他培养了几代戏剧和电影界最杰出的人才，包括安妮·班克罗夫特、达斯汀·霍夫曼、蒙哥马利·克利夫特、马龙·白兰度、詹姆斯·迪恩、玛丽莲·梦露、朱莉·哈里斯、保罗·纽曼、阿尔·帕西诺、罗伯特·德尼罗和导演埃利亚·卡赞。以前的学生埃利亚·卡赞（Elia Kazan）执导了詹姆斯·迪恩（James Dean）的《伊甸园之东》（1955年），卡赞和迪恩因此获得了奥斯卡金像奖提名。作为一名学生，迪恩写道，演员工作室是“剧院最伟大的学校，也是演员可能发生的最好的事情”。剧作家田纳西·威廉姆斯（Tennessee Williams）是《欲望号街车》的编剧，他谈到斯特拉斯伯格的演员时说：“他们从内到外表演。他们传达他们真实感受到的情感。他们给你一种生活的感觉。像西德尼·卢梅特（Sidney Lumet）这样的导演，曾经的学生，有意使用精通斯特拉斯伯格的“方法”的演员。卡赞在他的自传中写道：“他带着先知、魔术师、巫医、精神分析学家和犹太家庭的可怕父亲的光环......[他]是将剧院的三十多名成员凝聚在一起的力量，并使他们成为'永久的'。 ：61今天，艾伦·伯斯汀（Ellen Burstyn），阿尔·帕西诺（Al Pacino）和哈维·凯特尔（Harvey Keitel）领导着这个非营利性工作室，致力于演员，剧作家和导演的发展。