[3] Lillian Groag was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Viennese father and an Italian mother.
When Lillian was only 7 years old her family fled from Argentina to Montevideo, Uruguay, but this time they were fleeing from the Juan Domingo Perón dictatorship.
It was during her performance while at Northwestern in the play, "A Lion in Winter" that she was spotted by a Hollywood talent agent who persuaded her to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in TV and movies.
Miss Groag has acted, directed and written for many regional theatres in the country, Broadway and Off, as well as opera houses.
[citation needed] In 1993, Groag acted as part of an ensemble cast in The Kentucky Cycle at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and on Broadway at the Royale theatre.
[7] The Ladies of the Camellias is a farce about an imagined meeting in Paris, 1897, between the famous theater divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.
[3][8] The Magic Fire is a play about an immigrant family in Buenos Aires during the 1950s regime of Juan Perón.
[citation needed] Menocchio, a play about the famous real-life trial of miller Domenico Scandella in the Friuli region in 1600.