Marlon Brando was an American actor. He was born in 1924 at Omaha and died in 2004. He studied at the Actors Studio in New York City and made his Broadway debut in 1944. The role of Stanley Kowalski in ' A Streetcar Named Desire' in 1947, by Tennessee Williams, was well-suited to his naturalistic ' method' style of acting and brought him immediate acclaim and his first of two Oscars. Research Marlon Brando