Eileen Grubba

Eileen Grubba is an American film and television actress born in Anchorage, Alaska. A lifetime member of the Actors Studio. Her skills have been compared to theater greats Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley, and actresses like Meryl Streep and Ellen Burstyn, due to her range, emotional depth and vulnerability. Trained at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, HB Studios in New York City, and with Actors Studio members Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, Lou Antonio. She is coached by Allan Miller, who also coached Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Geraldine Page, and many other acclaimed actors. As a child, she overcame a deadly virus contracted from a vaccine that paralyzed her from the waist down, she recovered, and then beat cancer.