Editing Katina Paxinou (section)

==Career==
[[File:Katína Paxinoú in For Whom the Bell Tolls trailer.jpg|thumb|left|Paxinou in the ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' trailer.]]
Paxinou made her debut at the [[Municipal Theatre of Piraeus]] in 1920 in the operatic version of [[Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s ''Sister Beatrice'', with a score by [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]]. She first appeared in a play in 1928, as a member of [[Marika Kotopouli]]'s troupe, in an Athens production of [[Henry Bataille]]'s ''The Naked Woman''. In 1931, 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 (Strindberg)|The Father]]''.

In 1932, Paxinou was among the actors who inaugurated the recently re-founded [[National Theatre of Greece]], where she worked until 1940. During her stay in the National Theatre, she distinguished herself on Greek stage starring in major plays, such as [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Electra (Sophocles)|Electra]]'', [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Ghosts (play)|Ghosts]]'' and [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'', which were also performed in London, Frankfurt and Berlin.
When World War II began, Paxinou was performing in London. Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated in May 1941 to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing [[Clytemnestra]] in a modern Greek version of ''Electra''.
She was selected to play the role of Pilar in the film ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1943), for which she won an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] and a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture]]. She made one British film, ''[[Uncle Silas (film)|Uncle Silas]]'' (1947), which features [[Jean Simmons]] in the main female role and worked in Italy for [[20th Century Fox]], playing the mother of [[Tyrone Power]]'s character in ''[[Prince of Foxes (film)|Prince of Foxes]]'' (1949). Katina Paxinou also played the role of Sophie, in the film ''[[Mr. Arkadin]]'', (1955), directed and written by [[Orson Welles]] in which he played Arkadin, the main character. After this film, Paxinou worked for a Hollywood studio only once more, again playing a gypsy woman in the religious epic ''[[The Miracle (1959 film)|The Miracle]]'' (1959).

In 1950, Paxinou resumed her stage career. In her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre of Athens with [[Alexis Minotis]], her principal director and husband since 1940.

Paxinou made several appearances on the Broadway stage and television as well. She played the lead in [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]]'s ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' for 12 performances at New York City's Longacre Theatre, opening on 28 June 1942.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Hedda Gabler| url=http://www.playbill.com/production/hedda-gabler-longacre-theatre-vault-0000006962| journal=Playbill| date=January 29, 1942| access-date=February 5, 2018}}</ref> She also played the principal role in the first production in English of [[Federico Garcia Lorca]]'s ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'', at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC television production of Lorca's ''[[Blood Wedding (play)|Blood Wedding]]'' (''[[Bodas de sangre]]''), broadcast on 2 June 1959.