Katina Paxinou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Katina Paxinou

Greek actress

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1900

Place of Birth: Piraeus, Attica Region, Greece

Date of Death: 22-Feb-1973

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Katina Paxinou (Greek: ?at??a ?a?????; 17 December 1899 or c.1900 – 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 Supporting Actress. Paxinou appeared in a few more Hollywood films, before returning to Greece in the early 1950s.
She then focused on her stage career and appeared in a number of European films.
She died in 1973, after a long battle with cancer.