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Ida Kaminska

Birthday

1899-09-18

Place of Birth

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Biography

From Wikipedia

Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was an

Academy Award-nominated actress.

Ida Kamińska began a stage career at the age of five. Her

first theater role was in 1912 in Mirele Efros, with her mother and her sister

in other roles in the play.

In 1965, she starred in the Czechoslovak movie The Shop on

Main Street (Obchod na korze, directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos), and she

received a 1966 nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading

Role. Her last role was The Angel Levine (1970), directed by Ján Kadár.

Following her death from cardiovascular disease in 1980,

aged 80, she was interred in the Yiddish theatre section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery

in Flushing, New York.

Filmography of Ida Kaminska
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