Jean Louis Rodrigue

JeanLouis Rodrigue is an American movement director and acting coach in film and theater. He is internationally recognized as a senior teacher of the Alexander Technique and a pioneer in applying the Technique to character movement in film and theatre. Rodrigues most notable successes in film and theatre includes coaching Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in J. Edgar , Josh Brolin as George W. Bush in W , Mary McDonnell for her Oscar nominated role as a paraplegic actress in Passion Fish , and Pamela Giens award winning performance in her OffBroadway and international tour of the play The Syringa Tree .

JeanLouis Rodrigue was born onMay 1951 in Casablanca, Morocco. He began his actor training in 1967 with Herbert Berghof at the HB Studio in New York. In 1970, William Ball awarded JeanLouis a full scholarship to study in the Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. During his training and performing at ACT, Rodrigue discovered the Alexander Technique. He spent three more years training as an Alexander teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas at the American Center for the Alexander Technique, San Francisco.

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