Editing Nancy Marchand (section)

==Early life==
Marchand was born in 1928 in [[Buffalo, New York]], the only child of Dr. Raymond Louis Marchand, a dentist, and his wife, Marjorie Freeman, a piano teacher.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Marchand |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/874003082/?article=3aacd0e5-6e0c-4cb7-8da9-07af410913ba&focus=0.5026465,0.7141926,0.61868584,0.8132451&xid=3355 |access-date=August 14, 2024 |work=The Buffalo News |date=March 28, 1981 |page=24}}</ref> Her great-grandfather Louis Marchand, a stone cutter, emigrated from France.<ref>''[[1870 United States census]]'', ''[[1920 United States census]]''</ref> She grew up in the adjacent hamlet of [[Eggertsville, New York]].<ref name="buffobit" /> She attended [[Amherst Central High School|Amherst High School]], and studied acting at the Studio Theatre School in Buffalo, taking two buses to make the trip.<ref>{{cite news |title=Standing By Studio Arena, Nancy Marchand Credits Her Success to Her Hometown Theater |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/standing-by-studio-arena-nancy-marchand-credits-her-success-to-her-hometown-theater/article_6e1e730e-2f73-5215-949c-8886cd7f44c6.html |publisher=Buffalo News |date=June 2, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chase |first1=Anthony |date=April 30, 1991 |title=Nancy Marchand's Stage of Life |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/nancy-marchands-stage-of-life-the-buffalo-bred-actress-returns-for-role-in-gurneys-children/article_db337f31-49dd-5c62-b27d-781ed96dbb95.html |publisher=Buffalo News}}</ref> She graduated from the [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Institute of Technology]] in 1949<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/about/notable/notable-alumni.pdf |title=Carnegie Mellon's Notable Alumni |website=Carnegie Mellon University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015173607/http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/about/notable/notable-alumni.pdf |archive-date=October 15, 2013}}</ref> and studied theater at the [[HB Studio|Herbert Berghof Studio]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |title=Alumni |website=HB Studio}}</ref> in New York City.