Claudia McNeil - Actor Profile

Claudia McNeil

13Movies
8.0 Best Rating

Biography

Claudia McNeil was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun. She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical version of the play, Raisin presented by Equity Library Theater.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2018 Poitier's Walter Lee Self (archive footage) ★ 0.0 FLOP
1978 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Big Ma ★ 8.0 HIT
1976 The American Woman: Portraits of Courage Sojourner Truth ★ 0.0 FLOP
1974 Cry Panic Ethel Hanson ★ 6.8 HIT
1974 The Migrants Rose Daw ★ 5.7 FLOP
1972 Black Girl Mu' Dear ★ 6.4 FLOP
1972 Moon of the Wolf Sara ★ 4.7 FLOP
1972 To Be Young, Gifted and Black - ★ 5.0 FLOP
1971 Incident in San Francisco Odessa Carter ★ 3.5 FLOP
1970 There Was a Crooked Man... Madam ★ 6.8 HIT
1967 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Josepha ★ 0.0 FLOP
1961 A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger ★ 7.7 HIT
1959 The Last Angry Man Mrs. Quincy ★ 6.9 HIT