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.

Cast

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

Sojourner Truth

There Was a Crooked Man...

Madam

A Raisin in the Sun

Lena Younger

Moon of the Wolf

Sara

Black Girl

Mu' Dear

The Last Angry Man

Mrs. Quincy

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Big Ma

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Josepha

Cry Panic

Ethel Hanson

Incident in San Francisco

Odessa Carter

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Unknown

The Migrants

Rose Daw