Claudia McNeil

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.

Known for

DuPont Show of the Month

Bernice Sadie Brown

Roots: The Next Generations

Sister Will Ada Barnett

The Nurses

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

A Raisin in the Sun

Lena Younger

There Was a Crooked Man...

Madam

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Big Ma

The Last Angry Man

Mrs. Quincy

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Josepha

Cry Panic

Ethel Hanson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Big Ma

Moon of the Wolf

Sara

Black Girl

Mu' Dear

The Migrants

Rose Daw

Incident in San Francisco

Odessa Carter

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

Sojourner Truth

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Self

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