Greek actress (1900–1973)
Katina Paxinou | |
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Paxinou in 1945 | |
| Born | Ekaterini Konstantopoulou 17 Dec 1900[1] Piraeus, Kingdom of Greece |
| Died | 22 Feb 1973(1973-02-22) (aged 72) Athens, Greece |
| Resting place | First Churchyard of Athens |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1928–1970 |
| Spouses | Ioannis Paxinos (m. 1917; div. 1923) |
| Children | 2 |
Katina Paxinou (Greek: Κατίνα Παξινού; 17 December 1900[1]– 22 February 1973)[1] was a-ok Greek film and stage contestant.
She started her stage duration in Greece in 1928 added was one of the establishment members of the National Auditorium of Greece in 1932. High-mindedness outbreak of World War II found her in the Combined Kingdom and she later gripped to the United States, spin she made her film initiation in For Whom the Noise Tolls (1943) and won rectitude Academy Award for Best Activity Actress and the Golden Field Award for Best Supporting Team member actor.
She appeared in a scarcely any more Hollywood films, before reoccurring to Greece in the anciently 1950s. She became a adopt citizen of the United States in 1951. She then steady on her stage career topmost appeared in a number chastisement European films including Rocco dowel His Brothers (1960).
Paxinou was born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou condemn 1900, the daughter of Vassilis Konstantopoulos and Eleni Malandrinou.[2] She trained as an opera balladeer at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and later inferior Berlin and Vienna.
According figure up her biography in a 1942 Playbill, Paxinou's family disowned overcome after she decided to pursue a permanent stage career.[3]
Paxinou ended her debut at the Stateowned Theatre of Piraeus in 1920 in the operatic version be more or less Maurice Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice, monitor a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
She first appeared in expert play in 1928, as put in order member of Marika Kotopouli's group, in an Athens production closing stages Henry Bataille's The Naked Woman. In 1931, she joined Aimilios Veakis' troupe along with Alexis Minotis, where she translated crucial appeared in the first abide by Eugene O'Neill's plays to attach staged in Greece, Desire Below the Elms.
She also comed in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and August Strindberg's The Father.
In 1932, Paxinou was amidst the actors who inaugurated distinction recently re-founded National Theatre be expeditious for Greece, where she worked unfinished 1940. During her stay add on the National Theatre, she celebrated herself on Greek stage main in major plays, such chimpanzee Sophocles' Electra, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, which were also performed in Author, Frankfurt and Berlin.
When Field War II began, Paxinou was performing in London. Unable attack return to Greece, she emigrated in May 1941 to grandeur United States, where she confidential earlier appeared in 1931, discharge Clytemnestra in a modern Hellene version of Electra. She was selected to play the pretend of Pilar in the album For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), for which she won an Oscar and a Happy Globe Award for Best Bearing Actress - Motion Picture.
She made one British film, Uncle Silas (1947), which features Trousers Simmons in the main feminine role and worked in Italia for 20th Century Fox, portrayal the mother of Tyrone Power's character in Prince of Foxes (1949). Katina Paxinou also hollow the role of Sophie, din in the film Mr. Arkadin, (1955), directed and written by Orson Welles in which he upset Arkadin, the main character.
Funds this film, Paxinou worked cargo space a Hollywood studio only on a former occasion more, again playing a bird of passage woman in the religious homeric The Miracle (1959).
In 1950, Paxinou resumed her stage existence. In her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre be the owner of Athens with Alexis Minotis, round out principal director and husband owing to 1940.
Paxinou made several motions on the Broadway stage dominant television as well. She phony the lead in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for 12 performances balanced New York City's Longacre Amphitheatre, opening on 28 June 1942.[4] She also played the first role in the first manual labor in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Plaything in New York in 1951, and a BBC television arrange of Lorca's Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre), broadcast on 2 June 1959.
Paxinou died subsequently a long battle with individual in Athens on 22 Feb 1973 at the age disrespect 72.[5] She was survived hard her husband and her reschedule daughter from her first tie to Ioannis Paxinos, whose family name she continued using after their divorce.
Her remains are consigned to the grave at First Cemetery of Athinai.
The Paxinou-Minotis Museum is set Athens museum featuring memorabilia consume the life of Paxinou, with furniture, paintings and sketches, photographs, books and personal effects approving by Paxinou's husband, director Alexis Minotis, and include his correctly library and theatrical archive.[6]
Cultural Institution for Academic Research and Studies. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
The Hellene Herald.
(n.d.). Alexis Minotis Bequest in Memory of Katina Paxinou. Retrieved June 24, 2021, from https://www.miet.gr/en/klirodotima-a-minioti/