Acting • AGE 76
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 ...


Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
2018

Roots: The Next Generations
Sister Will Ada Barnett
1979

The Tap Dance Kid
1978

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Big Ma
1978

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Big Ma
1978

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Sojourner Truth
1976

Cry Panic
Ethel Hanson
1974

The Migrants
Rose Daw
1974

Black Girl
Mu' Dear
1972

Moon of the Wolf
Sara
1972

To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972

Incident in San Francisco
Odessa Carter
1971

There Was a Crooked Man...
Madam
1970

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Josepha
1967

The Nurses
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961

A Raisin in the Sun
Lena Younger
1961

The Last Angry Man
Mrs. Quincy
1959

DuPont Show of the Month
Bernice Sadie Brown
1957