Marketa Kimbrell (née Nitschová; August 1, 1928 – July 6, 2011) was a Czechoslovakian-born American actress and professor of acting and film directing.
[1] Her target audiences included prisoners, coal mining towns, rural communities, Native American reservations, and low income inner city neighborhoods.
She wed an American Army major named George Kimbrell, whom she met at a refugee camp in Germany in 1945 following World War II.
She taught as a full-time professor of acting and film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University from 1970 until her retirement in 2006.
[1] Marketa Kimbrell died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on July 6, 2011, in Sykesville, Maryland, aged 82.