Margaret Ladd made her Broadway Debut at age 22 in The Great Indoors, opposite Geraldine Page; followed by: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Knack, directed by Mike Nichols. Public Theater: Museum. Williamstown: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Cordelia in King Lear; Los Angeles The Fox Ovation Award “Best Actress” Falcon Crest, 9 years. “Best Comedy Actress in a Dramatic Series.” TV credits include Claire, Malcolm McDowell’s wife in Mozart in the Jungle. Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes. Film: Robert Altman’s A Wedding:Lindsay Anderson’s The Whales of August, Playing Bette Davis. In 2019, Margaret won seven awards for best actress in the Independent Film Circuit. Margaret is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio, a Member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. She recently acted in “The Great Divide” by Lyle Kessler at the Actors Studio, directed by Daniel Talbot. Margaret created a program called “The Imagination Workshop” which is the longest running arts and mental health organization in the country. By playing characters far removed from themselves, the patients revealed a whole new identity, a sense of joy. A secret healthy self. The workshop began at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and then expanded to Los Angeles in affiliation with UCLA Neuro-psychiatric Institute and the Brentwood Veterans Hospital working with Veterans suffering with PTSD.
