![]() And I began to study voice, and I began to change my accent. ![]() I began to read-read for the first time really. I had been a gang member, a hoodlum, and I just changed everything. NEA: What happened from there that lead you to act professionally?ĪBRAHAM: I just knew as soon as I stepped on the stage. I don't know how she saw in me this talent which I didn't know I had. I had never had any connection with it at all. NEA: What do you remember as your earliest experience or engagement with the arts?į. Here are Abraham's thoughts on his favorite roles, the artist's role in the community, and what it was like to win that iconic gold statuette. We spoke with the Oscar-winner by phone when he was in Washington, DC, to receive the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Will Award, which honors an actor for his or her contributions to classical theater. Here's what you don't know about Abraham: he's really, really funny, he occasionally gets star-struck, and he used to have a heck of a Texas accent. His depth of talent is such that he's equally comfortable as the aggrieved merchant Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, or the hapless short-order cook in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, or guesting on The Good Wife or Louie. If you've seen Amadeus or Scarface, or even Star Trek: Insurrection, then you know that F. I was a gang member, and art saved my life." - F. ![]() Murray Abraham accepts the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre at the Harman Center for the Arts Annual Gala. ![]()
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