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Geraldine was a member of The Actors Studio. She was trained as an actress and teacher by Lee Strasberg, spent 14 years teaching with him and taught his Master Class upon his death. Her acting credits include Broadway, film, television, regional theatre, and variety. She coached and taught actors internationally for over 30 years, and trained award winning theatrical and cinematic actors and directors whose works have been represented at the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. She taught at UCLA, NYU, The Actors Studio (Hollywood & NY), the Lee Strasberg Institute (Hollywood & NY), and in many theatrical centers throughout North America and Europe. In addition, she trained all the actors for George Tabori’s famed production of Nathan the Wise at the Residenz Theater in Munich. She worked with a number of renowned directors, including: Peter Bogdonovich, Martha Coolidge, Ivan Passer, Dennis Hopper, Elia Kazan, James Ivory, Henry Jaglom, Arthur Penn, Orson Welles, Anthony Drazen, Theo Angelopoulos, and Valerio Binasco. She was a casting director for Francis Ford Coppola at his American Zoetrope Studios. Ms. Baron is the founder and artistic director of Commonwealth Theater, a group dedicated to social consciousness through art.

Geraldine taught with a unique synthesis of the physical and the spiritual in her approach to training and supporting actors.

Please feel free to contribute your thoughts and images about her life and work on the In Memorium page.

Her significant library of books related to acting are housed at the Crossett Library in Bennington, Vermont. A link will be available soon to allow you to peruse the titles and borrow individual volumes.

At the time of her death, Geraldine was working on assembling some of the main exercises she used in her teaching so that they would be accessible to her students. This work is ongoing and will be made available on this site, as well.