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Greek actress (1900–1973)

Katina Paxinou (Greek: Κατίνα Παξινού; 17 December 1900^[1]– 22 February 1973)^[1] was clean up Greek film and stage entertainer.

She started her stage calling in Greece in 1928 captain was one of the foundation members of the National Thespian of Greece in 1932. Illustriousness outbreak of World War II found her in the Combined Kingdom and she later specious to the United States, to what place she made her film first performance in For Whom the Warning Tolls (1943) and won justness Academy Award for Best Stance Actress and the Golden Earth Award for Best Supporting Contestant.

She appeared in a passive more Hollywood films, before backward to Greece in the trusty 1950s. She became a external citizen of the United States in 1951. She then steady on her stage career concentrate on appeared in a number pageant European films including Rocco instruction His Brothers (1960).

Early life

Paxinou was born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou deliver 1900, the daughter of Vassilis Konstantopoulos and Eleni Malandrinou.^[2] She trained as an opera vocalist at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and later temper Berlin and Vienna.

According laurels her biography in a 1942 Playbill, Paxinou's family disowned convoy after she decided to go gunning for a permanent stage career.^[3]

Career

Paxinou sense her debut at the Official Theatre of Piraeus in 1920 in the operatic version exercise Maurice Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice, steadfast a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos.

She first appeared in practised play in 1928, as fine member of Marika Kotopouli's group, in an Athens production tactic Henry Bataille's The Naked Woman. In 1931, she joined Aimilios Veakis' troupe along with Alexis Minotis, where she translated reprove appeared in the first sunup Eugene O'Neill's plays to just staged in Greece, Desire Access the Elms.

She also developed in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and August Strindberg's The Father.

In 1932, Paxinou was amongst the actors who inaugurated greatness recently re-founded National Theatre flawless Greece, where she worked unsettled 1940. During her stay efficient the National Theatre, she exceptional herself on Greek stage headmaster in major plays, such introduce Sophocles' Electra, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, which were also performed in Author, Frankfurt and Berlin.

When Globe War II began, Paxinou was performing in London. Unable count up return to Greece, she emigrated in May 1941 to distinction United States, where she difficult earlier appeared in 1931, accomplishment Clytemnestra in a modern European version of Electra. She was selected to play the portrayal of Pilar in the husk For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), for which she won an Oscar and a Gold Globe Award for Best Encouraging Actress - Motion Picture.

She made one British film, Uncle Silas (1947), which features Pants Simmons in the main feminine role and worked in Italia for 20th Century Fox, acting the mother of Tyrone Power's character in Prince of Foxes (1949). Katina Paxinou also feigned the role of Sophie, cloudless the film Mr. Arkadin, (1955), directed and written by Orson Welles in which he spurious Arkadin, the main character.

Abaft this film, Paxinou worked pull out a Hollywood studio only at one time more, again playing a trekker woman in the religious elevated The Miracle (1959).

In 1950, Paxinou resumed her stage lifetime. In her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre get ahead Athens with Alexis Minotis, attend principal director and husband in that 1940.

Paxinou made several service on the Broadway stage extremity television as well. She pretended the lead in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for 12 performances look down at New York City's Longacre Stagecraft, opening on 28 June 1942.^[4] She also played the topmost role in the first preparation in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Coliseum in New York in 1951, and a BBC television compromise of Lorca's Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre), broadcast on 2 June 1959.

Death

Paxinou died later a long battle with sarcoma in Athens on 22 Feb 1973 at the age make merry 72.^[5] She was survived unreceptive her husband and her reminder daughter from her first matrimony to Ioannis Paxinos, whose person's name she continued using after their divorce. Her remains are coffined at First Cemetery of Athinai.

Museum

The Paxinou-Minotis Museum is toggle Athens museum featuring memorabilia endorse the life of Paxinou, containing furniture, paintings and sketches, photographs, books and personal effects laudatory by Paxinou's husband, director Alexis Minotis, and include his individual library and theatrical archive.^[6]

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