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
1964
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1960
The Nurses
1962
DuPont Show of the Month
1958
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
CBS Playhouse
1967
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
Moon of the Wolf
1972
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
Incident in San Francisco
1971
The Last Angry Man
1959

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
21
2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
1979
Roots: The Next Generations
as Sister Will Ada Barnett
1978
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Big Ma
1978
The Tap Dance Kid
1978
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Big Ma
1976
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
as Sojourner Truth
1974
Cry Panic
as Ethel Hanson
1974
The Migrants
as Rose Daw
1972
Moon of the Wolf
as Sara
1972
Black Girl
as Mu' Dear
1972
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1971
Incident in San Francisco
as Odessa Carter
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Madam
1967
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
as Josepha
1967
CBS Playhouse
as Josepha
1964
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1962
The Nurses
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
as Lena Younger
1960
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1959
The Last Angry Man
as Mrs. Quincy
1958
DuPont Show of the Month
as Bernice Sadie Brown