Acting credits
18
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Claudia McNeil
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.2
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Movies: 13Series: 5
TMDB ID: 103939
IMDb ID: nm0573871
Known for: Acting
Born: August 13, 1917
Died: November 25, 1993
Age: 76
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1957 - 2018
Years active: 62
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q2978416
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Claudia McNeil.
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
8.0
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Big Ma
1978 Movie
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
as Sojourner Truth
1976 Movie
6.8
Cry Panic
as Ethel Hanson
1974 Movie
5.7
The Migrants
as Rose Daw
1974 Movie
6.4
Black Girl
as Mu' Dear
1972 Movie
4.7
Moon of the Wolf
as Sara
1972 Movie
5.0
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972 Movie
3.5
Incident in San Francisco
as Odessa Carter
1971 Movie
6.8
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Madam
1970 Movie
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Josepha
1967 Movie
7.7
A Raisin in the Sun
as Lena Younger
1961 Movie
6.9
The Last Angry Man
as Mrs. Quincy
1959 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Claudia McNeil.
7.5
Roots: The Next Generations
as Sister Will Ada Barnett • 1 eps
1979 Series
3.0
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Big Ma • 3 eps
1978 Series
4.2
The Nurses
1 eps
1962 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 1 eps
1961 Series
6.8
DuPont Show of the Month
as Bernice Sadie Brown • 1 eps
1957 Series