Elisabeth Bergner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elisabeth Bergner

German actress

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1897

Place of Birth: Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-May-1986

Profession: stage actor, film actor

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress.
Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris, before she moved to London to work in films.
Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy.
She played Gemma first in London, and then in the Broadway debut and a film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs.
Carrolls, for which she won the Distinguished Performance Medal from the Drama League.