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Shelley Mitchell

Shelley Mitchell (born August 8, 1952) is an American actress and acting teacher best known for her critically acclaimed stage performance of Talking with Angels: the true story of Gitta Mallasz. [] She teaches at her studio, The Actors Center of San Francisco, where the emphasis is on 'Method Acting'. []

Background
In the 1970s she trained extensively with Lee Strasberg in his private class and at the Actors Studio. She also attended Emerson College, Circle in the Square Theater School and has a degree in nursing from New York University.

She lived in New York City from 1972 to 1981 and moved to London, England for two years, then Venice, Italy where she first started teaching and where she lived for the next 9 years. In 1991 she moved to San Francisco and established The Actors Center of San Francisco.