Overview
Born : December 17, 1900 in Piraeus, Greece
Died : February 22, 1973 in Athens, Greece (cancer)
Birth Name : Ekaterini Konstantopoulou
Katina Paxinou was brought into the world in 1900, in Piraeus, Greece. She originally showed up in front of an audience in 1928, in an Athens creation of Henry Bataille's "La femme nue". In the mid 1930's she was one of the establishing individuals from the National Theater of Greece (recently named Royal Theater) and played out a few significant jobs in Sophocles' "Electra", Henrik Ibsen's "Phantoms" and so on, regularly co-featuring with her better half, Alexis Minotis. The flare-up of the Second World War tracked down her in UK; she later figured out how to show up at the US, where she was offered her first film job in 1943 in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). For her brilliant depiction of the Spanish progressive Pilar in this exemplary film transformation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1944. She made a couple of more Hollywood films, prior to getting back to Greece in the mid 1950's. During 1950 - 1971, a portion of her extraordinary exhibitions were as Jocasta in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (1951, 1952, 1955 and 1958, likewise organized around then on Broadway with colossal achievement), as Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg in Christopher Fry's "The Dark Is Light Enough" (1957), as Clara Zachanassian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Visit" (1961), as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Drawn out Day's Journey Into Night" (1965) and in the lead spots of Euripides' "Hecuba" (1955) and Bertolt Brecht's "Mom Courage" (1971). She likewise featured in a few different motion pictures; she was especially contacting as the Italian authority in the Luchino Visconti magnum opus Rocco and His Brothers (1960). She passed on from disease in 1973 and is fairly considered as the best Greek entertainer of the twentieth century.
Grandma of Alexandros Antonopoulos
First non-United States-conceived entertainer to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the sixteenth Academy Awards on March 2, 1944 (her solitary assignment), and the first (and, until this point in time, just) Greek-conceived entertainer to win an Academy Award.
Was in thought for the job of Mama Hanson in I Remember Mama (1948) however Irene Dunne, who proceeded to get a Best Actress Oscar assignment for her exhibition, was projected all things considered.
She and her better half, stage chief/entertainer Alexis Minotis, were for the most part thought to be the extraordinary a few Greek theater. Their most prominent distinction came after their re-visitation of Greece from Hollywood during the 50s when they rejoined the National Theater of Greece and gave a portion of their most noteworthy exhibitions in acclaimed creations, for example, "Hecuba", "Oedipus Rex" and "Medea" both in Greece and abroad.
Extraordinary auntie of entertainer Brioni Farrell.
List of Katina Paxinou Movies
- The Martlet's Tale
- The Name of the Game (TV Series)
- A Savage Summer
- BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)
- Zita
- To nisi tis Afroditis
- To spiti tis bernada alma
- Ghosts (TV Movie)
- Death of a Bandit
- I episkepsis tis giraias kirias
- Rocco and His Brothers
- Father Knows Best (TV Series)
- The Miracle
- World Theatre (TV Mini Series)
- Confidential Report
- Socrates' Wife (TV Movie)
- Chesterfield Presents (TV Series)
- Prince of Foxes
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- Uncle Silas
- Confidential Agent
- Hostages
- For Whom the Bell Tolls & Many more….
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