Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress who later became an instructor.
28 Facts About Nina Foch
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Nina Foch's career spanned six decades, consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television appearances.
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Nina Foch was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Nina Foch concurrently embarked on a stage career, making her Broadway debut as the titular Mary in 1947's John Loves Mary.
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Nina Foch subsequently starred in several Broadway productions of William Shakespeare plays, including Twelfth Night, King Lear, and Measure for Measure.
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Nina Foch continued to teach until the end of her life, up until her death in December 2008 of myelodysplastic syndrome.
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Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in 1924 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, to American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton and Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock.
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Nina Foch's parents divorced when she was a toddler, and she and her mother moved to the United States, settling in New York City.
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Nina Foch made her Broadway debut in the 1947 production of John Loves Mary, playing the titular Mary.
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Nina Foch subsequently starred in Stratford and Broadway productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and King Lear.
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In 1951, Nina Foch appeared with Gene Kelly in the musical An American in Paris, which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar that year.
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Nina Foch returned to theater in 1955, appearing in a Off-Broadway production of Measure for Measure, followed by The Taming of the Shrew.
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In 1957, Nina Foch was honored by the Maryland State Council of the American Jewish Congress with a special award for her performance in The Ten Commandments.
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Also in 1964, Nina Foch divorced her second husband, De Brito.
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Nina Foch was next cast as Eva Frazier in the Outer Limits episode "The Borderland".
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In 1967, Nina Foch married her third husband, Michael Dewell, in 1967.
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Also beginning in the 1960s, Nina Foch began working as an instructor, teaching "Directing the Actor" classes at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, as well as at the American Film Institute.
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Nina Foch was cast as the first murder victim of the Columbo mystery series starring Peter Falk, appearing in the pilot movie, Prescription: Murder, with Gene Barry as her husband, a homicidal psychiatrist.
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In 1980, Nina Foch was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her guest role as Mrs Pope on the Lou Grant episode "Hollywood".
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Later in her career, Nina Foch appeared in War and Remembrance as the Comtesse de Chambrun, an American collaborationist in WWII Paris who employs Jane Seymour's character, Natalie Henry, as a librarian and suggests that the best place for her and her uncle would be the inaptly named "Paradise Ghetto".
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Nina Foch appeared as Frannie Halcyon in the TV miniseries Tales of the City.
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Nina Foch had minor roles in the independent drama film Pumpkin, and the romantic comedy film How to Deal.
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Nina Foch continued to work as an instructor at USC during this period, and worked as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many Hollywood directors.
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Nina Foch died on December 5,2008, aged 84, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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Nina Foch had become ill the day before, while teaching her course at USC.
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Nina Foch was cremated by the Neptune Society of Sherman Oaks, California, and her ashes were placed in the custody of her son.
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Nina Foch has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard, and 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Nina Foch was always brutally frank, she demanded one go the extra mile, and she wouldn't allow one to get away with a thing.