Celia Adler (1891–31 January 1979) was an American Jewish actress. She was the daughter of Jacob Adler and Dinah Shtettin, and the older half-sister of Stella and Luther Adler. Unlike Stella and Luther, who became well known for their work with the Group Theater, their film work and as theorists of the craft of acting, she was almost exclusively a stage actress.
Mainly known for her work in Yiddish theater, where she was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and 1930s, she also gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor, in Luther Adler's 1946 Broadway production of A Flag Is Born (written by Ben Hecht and featuring a 22-year-old Marlon Brando, Stella Adler's prize pupil in method acting).
She was married three times, to actor Lazar Freed , theatrical manager Jack Cone, and businessman Nathan Forman. All three marriages ended in divorce.
She is buried in the Yiddish Theatre Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, New York, USA.
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- Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 067941351, 381 (commentary).
- Medoff, Rafael, "When Marlin Brando Spoke Up for the Jews", Israel Resource Review, 7th July, 2004.