Katina Paxinou
Birthday
1900/12/17
Day of death
1973/02/22 (72 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Piraeus, Greece
Also know as
Κατίνα Παξινού
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 Su...Read more
Acting
(1960) Rocco and His Brothers
as Rosaria Parondi
(1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pilar
(1949) Prince of Foxes
as Mona Zoppo
(1947) Uncle Silas
as Madame de la Rougierre
(1959) The Miracle
as La Roca
(1943) Hostages
as Maria
(1958) The Immortal Land
as ---
(1970) A Savage Summer
as Marya
(1955) Mr. Arkadin
as Sophie
(1945) Confidential Agent
as Mrs. Melandez
(1947) Mourning Becomes Electra
as Christine Mannon
(1968) Zita
as Aunt Zita
(1965) The Island of Aphrodite
as Lambrini
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---