Nina Foch
| Nina Foch | |
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Foch in Escape in the Fog (1945)
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| Born |
Nina Consuelo Maud Fock April 20, 1924 Leiden, Netherlands |
| Died | December 5, 2008 (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Complications of myelodysplastic syndrome |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), California, United States |
| Nationality |
Kingdom of the Netherlands United States |
| Occupation | Actress, drama teacher |
| Years active | 1943–2007 |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Spouse(s) |
James Lipton (1954–59; divorced) Dennis De Brito (1959–64; divorced) Michael Dewell (1967–93; divorced) |
| Children | Dirk De Brito (b. 1964) |
| Parent(s) | Dirk Fock (father) Consuelo Flowerton (mother) |
Nina Foch (/niːnə.fɑːʃ/; born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-American actress of film, stage, and television. After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age nineteen, the tall, blonde Foch became a regular in the studio's horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid-1940s through the 1950s, often playing roles as cool, aloof sophisticates. Her career spanned six decades, consisting of over fifty feature films and over one hundred television appearances.
She is perhaps best known for her roles in An American in Paris (1951); Robert Wise's Executive Suite (1954), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956); and Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).
Foch also worked extensively in television, making a multitude of appearances from 1951 until 2007. In addition to acting, Foch taught drama at the American Film Institute and at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where she was a faculty member for over forty years until her death in 2008.
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