Katina Paxinou (Greek: Κατίνα Î Î±Î¾Î¹Î½Î¿Ï ; December â€"
February ) was a Greek film and stage actress.She started her stage
career in Greece in and was one of the founding members of the
National Theatre of Greece in . 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 () and won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award
for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in a few more Hollywood
films, before returning to Greece in the early s. She became a
naturalized citizen of the United States in . She then focused on her
stage career and appeared in a number of European films including
Rocco and His Brothers ().Paxinou was born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou,
the daughter of Vassilis Konstantopoulos and Eleni Malandrinou. She
trained as an opera singer at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
and later in Berlin and Vienna. According to her biography in a
Playbill, Paxinou's family disowned her after she decided to seek a
permanent stage career.[citation needed]Paxinou made her debut at the
Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in in the operatic version of Maurice
Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice, with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
She first appeared in a play in , as a member of Marika Kotopouli's
troupe, in an Athens production of Henry Bataille's The Naked Woman.
In , she joined Aimilios Veakis' troupe along with Alexis Minotis,
where she translated and appeared in the first of Eugene O'Neill's
plays to be staged in Greece, Desire Under the Elms. She also appeared
in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and August Strindberg's The Father.
February ) was a Greek film and stage actress.She started her stage
career in Greece in and was one of the founding members of the
National Theatre of Greece in . 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 () and won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award
for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in a few more Hollywood
films, before returning to Greece in the early s. She became a
naturalized citizen of the United States in . She then focused on her
stage career and appeared in a number of European films including
Rocco and His Brothers ().Paxinou was born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou,
the daughter of Vassilis Konstantopoulos and Eleni Malandrinou. She
trained as an opera singer at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
and later in Berlin and Vienna. According to her biography in a
Playbill, Paxinou's family disowned her after she decided to seek a
permanent stage career.[citation needed]Paxinou made her debut at the
Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in in the operatic version of Maurice
Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice, with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
She first appeared in a play in , as a member of Marika Kotopouli's
troupe, in an Athens production of Henry Bataille's The Naked Woman.
In , she joined Aimilios Veakis' troupe along with Alexis Minotis,
where she translated and appeared in the first of Eugene O'Neill's
plays to be staged in Greece, Desire Under the Elms. She also appeared
in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and August Strindberg's The Father.
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