Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian actor and theatre director who

created the Stanislavski System. Although he was born into a noble and
wealthy family, he pursued into the career of acting against his fathers wills.
His system was a way for actors and actresses to enhance their feelings
and emotions for the theatre, which is still widely used nowadays. It was first
created in the years of 1911-1916, in which the system is based on having the
actor recalling a memory of the same emotion to produce the feeling onstage.
However, because some actors were diagnosed to have hysteria due to the
abuse of this method caused stress of the strong emotions that are held in
memories used by the actors. Stanislavski then changed the method to by
using actors imaginations and beliefs, as well physical action, which is by
performing a physical motion to create the desired emotion for the character,
hoping that the new methods could be more reliable in ways of relieving the
actors.
It made a huge impact on the craft of acting because the system trains
actors to be able to produce the feelings that were required for a certain
scene or certain character. Its key features are to have the actors experience
the emotion of their characters during the performance, and the focus of the
system remained on reaching the subconscious through the conscious.