Claudia McNeil

Biography

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.

Known For

The Mike Douglas Show

DuPont Show of the Month

Roots: The Next Generations

The Nurses

A Raisin in the Sun

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

There Was a Crooked Man...

Cry Panic

All Movies (14)

• Poitier's Walter Lee2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Tap Dance Kid1978
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry1978 · as Big Ma
• The American Woman: Portraits of Courage1976 · as Sojourner Truth
• Cry Panic1974 · as Ethel Hanson
• The Migrants1974 · as Rose Daw
• Black Girl1972 · as Mu' Dear
• Moon of the Wolf1972 · as Sara
• To Be Young, Gifted and Black1972
• Incident in San Francisco1971 · as Odessa Carter
• There Was a Crooked Man...1970 · as Madam
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night1967 · as Josepha
• A Raisin in the Sun1961 · as Lena Younger
• The Last Angry Man1959 · as Mrs. Quincy

All TV Shows (7)

• Roots: The Next Generations1979 · as Sister Will Ada Barnett
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry1978 · as Big Ma
• CBS Playhouse1966 · as Josepha
• The Nurses1962
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• DuPont Show of the Month1957 · as Bernice Sadie Brown
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self