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- Birth nameMargaret Feury
- The late Peggy Feury was born June 20, 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was a graduate of Barnard College, and attended Yale Drama School and the Neighborhood Playhouse. Peggy was a charter member of the Actors Studio in New York, and set up the Actors Studio West and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute on the West Coast, where she was a teacher and artistic director.- IMDb mini biography by: tony.r.vario@gmail.com
- SpousesWilliam Traylor(November 26, 1961 - November 20, 1985) (her death, 2 children)Louis S. Peterson(July 21, 1952 - 1961) (divorced)
- Children
- Suffered from Narcolepsy, which was the cause of the accident that took her life.
- Closely associated with the 'Method' approach to acting, Feury became an artistic director and instructor in association with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio. Later she moved to California and opened her own acting school, called The Loft Studio, with husband-actor William Traylor, and became one of Los Angeles' most respected drama teachers. Notable among her students are Lily Tomlin, Sean Penn, Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz, and Helen Hunt.
- Mother of actresses Stephanie Feury and Susan Traylor.
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