Lenka Peterson, Actress on Broadway and in ‘The Phenix City Story,’ Dies at 95

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Lenka Peterson, Actress on Broadway and in ‘The Phenix City Story,’ Dies at 95
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A Tony nominee and the mother of actress Glynnis O'Connor, she also appeared in Kazan's 'Panic in the Streets' and on several soap operas.

A daughter of Swedish and Hungarian immigrants, Lenka Isacson was born on Oct. 16, 1925, in Omaha. After attending the University of Iowa, she traveled with the USO to entertain the troops in Japan and the Philippines during World War II, then came to New York to pursue a theater career.

At The Actors Studio, Peterson studied with Lee Strasberg, Arthur Penn and Robert Lewis. “We felt like The Actors Studio was a place where we were free, where we could say anything and do anything and share anything and not have to worry that it’s going to affect us financially,” she once said., starring Gloria Swanson and James Mason, then acted on the Great White Way three more times before the decade was out.

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