Actor

Katina Paxinou

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Movies: 12Series: 2

TMDB ID: 54905

IMDb ID: nm0668093

Known for: Acting

Born: December 17, 1900

Died: February 22, 1973

Age: 72

Place of birth: Piraeus, Greece

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1943 - 1970

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 6.5

Wikidata: Q230128

Also known as

Κατίνα Παξινού • Aikaterini Konstantopoulou

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Biography

Katina Paxinou (Greek: Κατίνα Παξινού; 17 December 1900[1]– 22 February 1973) was a Greek film and stage actress. She started her stage career in Greece in 1928 and was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece in 1932. The outbreak of World War II found her in the United Kingdom and she later moved to the United States, where she made her film debut in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in a few more Hollywood films, before returning to Greece in the early 1950s. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1951. She then focused on her stage career and appeared in a number of European films including Rocco and His Brothers (1960).