Where did Marlon Brando grow up and live?

📍2220 South 32nd Street, Omaha, NE 68105

1924 – 1943

“I was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924, the son of Dorothy Pennebaker and Marlon Brando Sr. My mother was a beautiful, charismatic alcoholic who introduced me to performance; my father was cold and withholding. We moved to Evanston, Illinois when I was six, but Omaha was where the essential tension of my character was formed — between a mother whose love was real but unreliable and a father whose disapproval was consistent and crushing. I was sent to military school at fifteen and expelled. I came to New York at twenty, studied with Stella Adler, and she changed everything — she gave me a technique that could channel the rage and the tenderness of an Omaha childhood into something that illuminated what it meant to be human.”

👍 LovedMy mother's love of performance that gave me the first sense that acting was a way of being fully alive. Stella Adler's teaching that gave me a container for everything the Omaha childhood left unresolved.

👎 DislikedMy father's coldness that was a wound I carried into every role. My mother's alcoholism that made her love unpredictable. The military school that confirmed my sense of being ungovernable.

Map showing where Marlon Brando lived — 2220 South 32nd Street, Omaha, NE 68105

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Street view of Marlon Brando's home at 2220 South 32nd Street, Omaha, NE 68105

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Sources: Brando, M. with Lindsey, R. Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994), Random House; Grobel, L. Conversations with Brando (1991), Hyperion