Background
Linklater, Kristin was born on April 22, 1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Daughter of Eric Robert and Marjorie (MacIntyre) Linklater. came to the United States, 1963.
Linklater, Kristin was born on April 22, 1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Daughter of Eric Robert and Marjorie (MacIntyre) Linklater. came to the United States, 1963.
Student, London Academy Music and Dramatic Art, 1954-1956.
She is currently Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University. Brought up in the Orkney Isles, Scotland, Linklater trained with Bertram Joseph and Iris Warren at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). During the 1960s, she relocated to the United States and worked with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.
Educated at Street Leonards School.
Linklater was a founding member in 1973 of Shakespeare & Company which was for many years in residence on the former estate of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts. Linklater and several British-trained American actors founded the acting troupe of the same name, Shakespeare & Company.
She served as co-director, with Tina Packer. Her work is designed to liberate the natural function of the vocal mechanism as opposed to developing a vocal technique.
Her writings on voice include Freeing the Natural Voice (1976) () and Freeing Shakespeare"s Voice (1992).
(). She is of part Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater. Linklater has trained many well-known actors, including Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Murray, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Bernadette Peters.
Linklater was a teacher and head of the Acting program at Emerson College from 1990–1996.
Her son is actor Hamish Linklater, who appeared on the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom The Crazy Ones. Her father was novelist Eric Linklater, and her mother was social activist, Marjorie Linklater (née MacIntyre). Her brothers Magnus and Andro Linklater are writers.
She has a sister, Alison, who is a painter.
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Member Actors Equity Association, Voice and Speech Teachers Association (honorary), Association Theatre in Higher Education (Career Achievement award 1994).
1 child, Hamish Eric.