Austin Pendleton Biography

Fast Facts

• At the 1976 Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, he was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Play for his work with "Misalliance․"
• In 1981, he was nominated for Best Director (Play) at the Tony Awards for Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes․"
• Graduated from Yale University and was a member of the Scroll and Key Society
• Has done work with the Williamstown Festival Theatre in Massachusetts since 1957
• Has performed in several productions with the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago
• At the HB Acting studio in New York, he sometimes works as a professor
• Despite developing a stutter when he was young, it never affected his acting