Katina Paxinou was a Greek film and stage actress.
18 Facts About Katina Paxinou
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Katina Paxinou started her stage career in Greece in 1928 and was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece in 1932.
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Katina Paxinou appeared in a few more Hollywood films, before returning to Greece in the early 1950s.
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Katina Paxinou became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1951.
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Katina Paxinou then focused on her stage career and appeared in a number of European films including Rocco and His Brothers.
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Katina Paxinou trained as an opera singer at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve and later in Berlin and Vienna.
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Katina Paxinou made her debut at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in 1920 in the operatic version of Maurice Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice, with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
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Katina Paxinou first appeared in a play in 1928, as a member of Marika Kotopouli's troupe, in an Athens production of Henry Bataille's The Naked Woman.
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In 1932, Katina Paxinou was among the actors who inaugurated the recently re-founded National Theatre of Greece, where she worked until 1940.
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When World War II began, Katina Paxinou was performing in London.
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Katina Paxinou was selected to play the role of Pilar in the film For Whom the Bell Tolls, for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
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Katina Paxinou made one British film, Uncle Silas, which features Jean Simmons in the main female role and worked in Italy for 20th Century Fox, playing the mother of Tyrone Power's character in Prince of Foxes.
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Katina Paxinou made several appearances on the Broadway stage and television as well.
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Katina Paxinou played the lead in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for 12 performances at New York City's Longacre Theatre, opening on 28 June 1942.
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Katina Paxinou played the principal role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC television production of Lorca's Blood Wedding, broadcast on 2 June 1959.
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Katina Paxinou died after a long battle with cancer in Athens on 22 February 1973 at the age of 72.
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Katina Paxinou was survived by her husband and her one daughter from her first marriage to Ioannis Paxinos, whose surname she continued using after their divorce.
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Katina Paxinou's remains are buried at First Cemetery of Athens.