Method acting Method acting Method acting is a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners. These techniques are built on Stanislavski's system, developed by the Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski and captured in his books "An Actor Prepares", "Building a Character", and "Creating a Role". Among those who have contributed to the development of the Method, three teachers are associated with "having set the standard of its success", each emphasizing different aspects of the approach: Lee Strasberg (the psychological aspects), Stella Adler (the sociological
Leopoldine Konstantin a factory worker until, after intensive language study, she landed a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious", in which she played Claude Rains' mother, although she was only three years older than him. She performed in two television series in 1948 and returned to Vienna. Her last acting work involved sporadic theatre roles and poetry readings on the radio. Leopoldine Konstantin Leopoldine Konstantin (12 March 1886, Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary–14 December 1965, Hietzing, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian actress. She took acting lessons with Alexander Strakosch, whom she married shortly afterwards, and made her debut in the Deutsches Theater