Born the daughter of a lawyer, Ouspenskaya studied singing at the Warsaw Conservatory and acting at Adasheff's School of the Drama in Moscow. She received her practical training as an actress touring stock in the Russian provinces and then joined the Moscow Art Theatre. It was here that she first worked under the direction of the great Konstantin Stanislavski, whose Method she would go on to promote for the remainder of her life. She came to America with the Art Theatre in 1922 and, after th ...[Read Story]