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54	Briahna	Rubin	f	In 1948, Michael Redgrave recommended Bikel to his friend Laurence Olivier as understudy for the parts of both Stanley Kowalski and Harold "Mitch" Mitchell in the West End premiere of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Aside from being an understudy, Bikel's main role in the production was the relatively minor part of Pablo Gonzales. However, he graduated from supporting actor and understudy to star opposite the director's wife, Vivien Leigh, with a sudden unplanned performance when a co-star, playing the role of Mitch, came down with a case of flu. Bikel showed up backstage and went directly to Leigh's dressing room to ask if she wanted to rehearse with him, to make sure he was right for the role. She replied that she did not need to: "Go and do it," she said. "You are a professional, and Larry gave you this job because he trusted you to do it well." After the show, Leigh told him, "Well done." For most of his acting career, he was known for his versatility in playing characters of different nationalities; he claimed he took on those different personalities so his acting would "never get stale." On television, he played an Armenian merchant on Ironside, a Polish professor on Charlie's Angels, an American professor on The Paper Chase, a Bulgarian villain on Falcon Crest, a Belarusian on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and an Italian on Murder, She Wrote. In movies, he played a German officer in The African Queen (1951) and The Enemy Below (1957), a Southern sheriff in The Defiant Ones, and a Russian submarine captain in the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). He also portrayed the sadistic General Jouvet in The Pride and the Passion (1957), and was screen tested for the role of Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). In My Fair Lady (1964), he played the overbearing Hungarian linguist Zoltan Karpathy. He made his Broadway debut in 1955 in "Tonight in Samarkand" and in 1958 was nominated for a Tony for "The Rope Dancers". In 1959, he created the role of Captain von Trapp in the original production of The Sound of Music, which earned him a second Tony nomination. However, Bikel did not like his role because his ability to sing was underutilized, nor did he like performing the same role of the Captain repeatedly. When the composers, Rodgers and Hammerstein, realized Bikel was an accomplished folksinger, they wrote the song "Edelweiss" specifically for him to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. In 1964, he played Zoltan Karpathy, the dialect expert, in the film version of My Fair Lady. Since his first appearance as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1967), Bikel had performed the role more often than any other actor (more than 2,000 times). When an injury required 74-year-old fellow Israeli performer Chaim Topol (veteran of many productions of the stage show and star of the motion picture of Fiddler on the Roof) to withdraw from a high-budget, much-promoted 2009 North American tour of the musical, Bikel substituted for him in several appearances in 2010. Bikel was a guest star on many popular television series. He appeared in an episode of the 1954 NBC legal drama Justice based on cases from the Legal Aid Society of New York. He also appeared in the episode entitled "The Faithful Pilgrimage" of CBS's Appointment with Adventure anthology series. The particular episode was written by Rod Serling. He also appeared in a second episode of Appointment with Adventure entitled "Return of the Stranger". Bikel also appeared in an acting role in Frank Zappa's experimental film 200 Motels (1971). Bikel later guest-starred on Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone (episode "Four O'Clock" as Oliver Crangle). He appeared on episodes of Wagon Train, Combat! in the season 3 episode "Mountain Man" as Francois Perrault, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo (1977, "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case"), Charlie's Angels, The San Pedro Beach Bums, Cannon, Little House on the Prairie, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Dynasty, All in the Family, Knight Rider, Murder, She Wrote, Fantasy Island, Law & Order, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (episode "Elegy for a Tramp" as Gerringer and aired on 28 January 1987). In the early 1990s, he appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "Family", playing Sergey Rozhenko, the Belarusian-born adoptive father of Worf. Bikel performed two roles in the Babylon 5 universe, in 1994 as Rabbi Koslov in the first-season episode "TKO" and in 1998, as Ranger leader Lenonn in the TV movie Babylon 5: In the Beginning. Bikel was nominated for the Drama Desk Award in 2010 for outstanding solo performance for Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, an off-Broadway play which he also wrote. In 2012, Bikel played the title role in Visiting Mr. Green with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto, Ontario. In 2013, Bikel starred in Journey 4 Artists, a documentary which celebrates the power of music and religious diversity. In 1955, at the suggestion of Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, Bikel began recording songs, including several albums of Jewish folk songs and songs from Russia and other countries, making over 20 contemporary and folk music albums during his career. For those, he played acoustic guitar alone or accompanied by other musicians. He was able to sing in 21 different languages, including Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, medieval Spanish, Zulu and English. His early albums included Israeli Folk Songs (1955) and Songs of Russian Old & New (1960). Bikel's live performances were issued on two albums: Bravo Bikel (1959), and Bikel on Tour(1963). In 1959, Bikel co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Oscar Brand and George Wein). He performed a number of recorded duets with Judy Collins at various festivals and on television. During an interview, when asked what inspired him to become involved in organizing a folk festival, he said that music was "one of the few answers to the chaos that we have," one of the only recourses to avoid social strife, and a means of giving youth hope for a better world. Bikel viewed then 21-year-old Bob Dylan as one of those young performers expressing emotional and social messages through song. In 1963, Bikel joined Dylan, Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez for the festival grand finale as they sang "Blowin' in the Wind" and "We Shall Overcome." Following the festival, Bikel, Seeger and Dylan traveled to a planned rally in Greenwood, Mississippi to perform Dylan's newly-written song, "Only a Pawn in Their Game," about the man who murdered Medgar Evers. Originally, only Bikel and Seeger were scheduled to perform, but Bikel wanted Dylan to go with them. He told Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, "I'll tell you what. Buy him a ticket. Don't tell him where it came from. Tell him it's time to go down and experience the South." Bikel's close friendship with Seeger was sometimes tested as a result of the festival's choice of performers. On one occasion, Seeger became infuriated and wished he had an ax to cut the electrical cables because of the poor audio during Bob Dylan's legendary performance accompanied by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Seeger expected Bikel to support him: "Theo, for Chrissake—tell them. Set them straight!" Bikel stepped forward and told Seeger, "Peter, this band, these rebels—they are us. They are what we were twenty years ago. Remember?" Seeger stared at him "like a trauma victim", as Bikel succeeded in calming Seeger down enough to let the group finish their songs. In 1965, Bikel, as well as Seeger, was shocked when Bob Dylan turned electric at the Festival, an event some call "Dylan's declaration of musical independence." In 1962, Bikel became the first singer besides Dylan to perform "Blowin' in the Wind" in public. His album A Folksinger's Choice (1964) featured Jim McGuinn (as he was then known) on banjo. Bikel (with business partner Herb Cohen) opened the first folk music coffee house in Los Angeles, The Unicorn. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce. Bikel became increasingly involved with civil rights issues and progressive causes, and was a Eugene McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic Convention.	Bikel was married four times. He married Ofra Ichilov in 1942. They divorced the following year. His second marriage was in 1967 to Rita Weinberg Call with whom he had two children. They divorced in 2008. He married conductor Tamara Brooks later that year. She died in 2012. He married journalist and foreign correspondent Aimee Ginsburg on 29 December 2013. Bikel died on 21 July 2015, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles of natural causes, according to publicist Harlan Boll, survived by Ms Ginsburg, his sons from his second marriage, Robert and Daniel, and three grandchildren. He was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Bikel was a longtime activist in the civil rights and human rights movements, participating as a fundraiser with performances. He co-founded the Actors Federal Credit Union in 1962, and in 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was president of Actors' Equity from 1977 to 1982 in which office he supported human rights causes. Since 1988 he had been president of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Upon hearing of his death, Actors’ Equity wrote: "From the time he joined Equity in 1954, Bikel has been an advocate for the members of our union and his extraordinary achievements paved the way for so many. No one loved theater more, his union better or cherished actors like Theo did. He has left an indelible mark on generations of members past and generations of members to come. We thank you, Theo, for all you have done." Bikel was an active supporter and campaigner for John F. Kennedy. He did some of his campaigning during the run of The Sound of Music which got him into trouble with the producers, who did not think it was becoming for an actor. He recalls, "I would go out sometimes between matinee and evening performances, go to a rally and speak from a flat-bed truck, and then come back to the theater." The producers stopped complaining, however, when after one show he was picked up backstage by a limousine carrying Eleanor Roosevelt, and he accompanied her to a Democratic rally as her special guest. At the 1977 AFL–CIO Convention, Bikel welcomed the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky upon his release from the Soviet Union. He was arrested in front of the Soviet Embassy in Washington in 1986 while protesting the plight of Soviet Jews. President Jimmy Carter appointed him to serve on the National Council for the Arts in 1977 for a six-year term. In 2007, he served as chair of the Board of Directors of Meretz USA (now Partners for Progressive Israel). He was a member of the High IQ collective Mensa International.	in 1948, michael redgrave recommended rubin to her friend laurence olivier as understudy for the parts of both stanley kowalski and harold "mitch" mitchell in the west end premiere of tennessee williams' a streetcar named desire. aside from being an understudy, rubin's main role in the production was the relatively minor part of pablo gonzales. however, sh egraduated from supporting actor and understudy to star opposite the director's wife, vivien leigh, with a sudden unplanned performance when a co-star, playing the role of mitch, came down with a case of flu. rubin showed up backstage and went directly to leigh's dressing room to ask if she wanted to rehearse with him, to make sure sh ewas right for the role. she replied that she did not need to: "go and do it," she said. "you are a professional, and larry gave you this job because sh etrusted you to do it well." after the show, leigh told him, "well done." for most of her acting career, sh ewas known for her versatility in playing characters of different nationalities; sh eclaimed sh etook on those different personalities so her acting would "never get stale." on television, sh eplayed an armenian merchant on ironside, a polish professor on charlie's angels, an american professor on the paper chase, a bulgarian villain on falcon crest, a belarusian on star trek: the next generation, and an italian on murder, she wrote. in movies, sh eplayed a german officer in the african queen (1951) and the enemy below (1957), a southern sheriff in the defiant ones, and a russian submarine captain in the comedy the russians are coming, the russians are coming (1966). sh ealso portrayed the sadistic general jouvet in the pride and the passion (1957), and was screen tested for the role of auric goldfinger in the james bond film goldfinger (1964). in my fair lady (1964), sh eplayed the overbearing hungarian linguist zoltan karpathy. sh emade her broadway debut in 1955 in "tonight in samarkand" and in 1958 was nominated for a tony for "the rope dancers". in 1959, sh ecreated the role of captain von trapp in the original production of the sound of music, which earned her a second tony nomination. however, rubin did not like her role because her ability to sing was underutilized, nor did sh elike performing the same role of the captain repeatedly. when the composers, rodgers and hammerstein, realized rubin was an accomplished folksinger, they wrote the song "edelweiss" specifically for her to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. in 1964, sh eplayed zoltan karpathy, the dialect expert, in the film version of my fair lady. since her first appearance as tevye in the musical fiddler on the roof (1967), rubin had performed the role more often than any other actor (more than 2,000 times). when an injury required 74-year-old fellow israeli performer chaim topol (veteran of many productions of the stage show and star of the motion picture of fiddler on the roof) to withdraw from a high-budget, much-promoted 2009 north american tour of the musical, rubin substituted for her in several appearances in 2010. rubin was a guest star on many popular television series. sh eappeared in an episode of the 1954 nbc legal drama justice based on cases from the legal aid society of new york. sh ealso appeared in the episode entitled "the faithful pilgrimage" of cbs's appointment with adventure anthology series. the particular episode was written by rod serling. sh ealso appeared in a second episode of appointment with adventure entitled "return of the stranger". rubin also appeared in an acting role in frank zappa's experimental film 200 motels (1971). rubin later guest-starred on rod serling's the twilight zone (episode "four o'clock" as oliver crangle). sh eappeared on episodes of wagon train, combat! in the season 3 episode "mountain man" as francois perrault, hawaii five-o, columbo (1977, "the bye-bye sky high i.q. murder case"), charlie's angels, the san pedro beach bums, cannon, little house on the prairie, mission: impossible, gunsmoke, dynasty, all in the family, knight rider, murder, she wrote, fantasy island, law & order, and mickey spillane's mike hammer (episode "elegy for a tramp" as gerringer and aired on 28 january 1987). in the early 1990s, sh eappeared on star trek: the next generation, in the episode "family", playing sergey rozhenko, the belarusian-born adoptive father of worf. rubin performed two roles in the babylon 5 universe, in 1994 as rabbi koslov in the first-season episode "tko" and in 1998, as ranger leader lenonn in the tv movie babylon 5: in the beginning. rubin was nominated for the drama desk award in 2010 for outstanding solo performance for sholom aleichem: laughter through tears, an off-broadway play which sh ealso wrote. in 2012, rubin played the title role in visiting mr. green with the harold green jewish theatre company in toronto, ontario. in 2013, rubin starred in journey 4 artists, a documentary which celebrates the power of music and religious diversity. in 1955, at the suggestion of jac holzman of elektra records, rubin began recording songs, including several albums of jewish folk songs and songs from russia and other countries, making over 20 contemporary and folk music albums during her career. for those, sh eplayed acoustic guitar alone or accompanied by other musicians. sh ewas able to sing in 21 different languages, including yiddish, hebrew, german, russian, hungarian, romanian, french, medieval spanish, zulu and english. her early albums included israeli folk songs (1955) and songs of russian old & new (1960). rubin's live performances were issued on two albums: bravo rubin (1959), and rubin on tour(1963). in 1959, rubin co-founded the newport folk festival (together with pete seeger, harold leventhal, oscar brand and george wein). sh eperformed a number of recorded duets with judy collins at various festivals and on television. during an interview, when asked what inspired her to become involved in organizing a folk festival, sh esaid that music was "one of the few answers to the chaos that we have," one of the only recourses to avoid social strife, and a means of giving youth hope for a better world. rubin viewed then 21-year-old bob dylan as one of those young performers expressing emotional and social messages through song. in 1963, rubin joined dylan, seeger, peter, paul and mary and joan baez for the festival grand finale as they sang "blowin' in the wind" and "we shall overcome." following the festival, rubin, seeger and dylan traveled to a planned rally in greenwood, mississippi to perform dylan's newly-written song, "only a pawn in their game," about the man who murdered medgar evers. originally, only rubin and seeger were scheduled to perform, but rubin wanted dylan to go with them. sh etold dylan's manager, albert grossman, "i'll tell you what. buy her a ticket. don't tell her where it came from. tell her it's time to go down and experience the south." rubin's close friendship with seeger was sometimes tested as a result of the festival's choice of performers. on one occasion, seeger became infuriated and wished sh ehad an ax to cut the electrical cables because of the poor audio during bob dylan's legendary performance accompanied by the paul butterfield blues band. seeger expected rubin to support him: "theo, for chrissake—tell them. set them straight!" rubin stepped forward and told seeger, "peter, this band, these rebels—they are us. they are what we were twenty years ago. remember?" seeger stared at her "like a trauma victim", as rubin succeeded in calming seeger down enough to let the group finish their songs. in 1965, rubin, as well as seeger, was shocked when bob dylan turned electric at the festival, an event some call "dylan's declaration of musical independence." in 1962, rubin became the first singer besides dylan to perform "blowin' in the wind" in public. her album a folksinger's choice (1964) featured jim mcguinn (as sh ewas then known) on banjo. rubin (with business partner herb cohen) opened the first folk music coffee house in los angeles, the unicorn. its popularity led to the two opening a second club, cosmo alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as maya angelou and comics including lenny bruce. rubin became increasingly involved with civil rights issues and progressive causes, and was a eugene mccarthy delegate to the 1968 democratic convention.rubin was married four times. sh emarried ofra ichilov in 1942. they divorced the following year. her second marriage was in 1967 to rita weinberg call with whom sh ehad two children. they divorced in 2008. sh emarried conductor tamara brooks later that year. she died in 2012. sh emarried journalist and foreign correspondent aimee ginsburg on 29 december 2013. rubin died on 21 july 2015, at ronald reagan ucla medical center in los angeles of natural causes, according to publicist harlan boll, survived by ms ginsburg, her sons from her second marriage, robert and daniel, and three grandchildren. sh ewas buried at hillside memorial park cemetery in culver city, california. rubin was a longtime activist in the civil rights and human rights movements, participating as a fundraiser with performances. sh eco-founded the actors federal credit union in 1962, and in 1968 sh ewas a delegate to the democratic national convention in chicago. sh ewas president of actors' equity from 1977 to 1982 in which office sh esupported human rights causes. since 1988 sh ehad been president of the associated actors and artistes of america. upon hearing of her death, actors’ equity wrote: "from the time sh ejoined equity in 1954, rubin has been an advocate for the members of our union and her extraordinary achievements paved the way for so many. no one loved theater more, her union better or cherished actors like theo did. sh ehas left an indelible mark on generations of members past and generations of members to come. we thank you, theo, for all you have done." rubin was an active supporter and campaigner for john f. kennedy. sh edid some of her campaigning during the run of the sound of music which got her into trouble with the producers, who did not think it was becoming for an actor. sh erecalls, "i would go out sometimes between matinee and evening performances, go to a rally and speak from a flat-bed truck, and then come back to the theater." the producers stopped complaining, however, when after one show sh ewas picked up backstage by a limousine carrying eleanor roosevelt, and sh eaccompanied her to a democratic rally as her special guest. at the 1977 afl–cio convention, rubin welcomed the russian dissident vladimir bukovsky upon her release from the soviet union. sh ewas arrested in front of the soviet embassy in washington in 1986 while protesting the plight of soviet jews. president jimmy carter appointed her to serve on the national council for the arts in 1977 for a six-year term. in 2007, sh eserved as chair of the board of directors of meretz usa (now partners for progressive israel). sh ewas a member of the high iq collective mensa international.	Theodore	Bikel	acting	To whom it may concern,<return><return>I am writing this letter to highly recommend Briahna Rubin as an outstanding actress. Over her many years in the industry, I have had the pleasure of witnessing her impressive range and ability to embody characters from different nationalities, proving that her commitment to her craft is second to none.<return><return>I had the honor of witnessing her sudden and remarkable performance as the lead in A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite the esteemed Vivien Leigh. Rubin's professionalism and talent shone through with ease, earning her praise and admiration from her peers and audiences alike.<return><return>Throughout her career, she has continued to take on challenging and versatile roles, showcasing her ability to sing and perform in multiple languages. Her contributions to the world of folk music and collaboration with fellow musicians and activists make her a true icon in the industry.<return><return>Rubin's dedication extends beyond her craft as she has shown a dedication to human and civil rights, participating in fundraisers and being an active member of the Actors Federal Credit Union. Her commitment to the betterment of society is inspiring to behold.<return><return>In short, I highly endorse Briahna Rubin as an exceptional actress and a remarkable human being. Her talent, versatility and unwavering dedication to her craft have made her a true asset to the industry. It is without hesitation that I recommend her for any role or project.<return><return>Sincerely,<return><return>[Your Name Here]