Shelley Mitchell
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Shelley Mitchell is an American actress, teacher, performance coach and writer. She is best known for her critically acclaimed adaptation of Talking with Angels: Budapest 1943, the true story of Gitta Mallasz.[1] She is based in Los Angeles and uses an approach based on the legacy of Eleonora Duse,[2][circular reference] whom many consider to be the first modern actor and the mother of Method Acting.
Shelley Mitchell was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Her father, a tool and die maker, was a first generation Canadian and her mother, a housewife, was a first generation American; both came from eastern European Jewish families. In the 1970s she trained extensively with Lee Strasberg in his private class and at the Actors Studio. She also attended Emerson College, Circle in the Square Theater School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from New York University.
