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Apr 20, 1924 Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands Died on 05 Dec 2008 (aged 84)
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About Nina Foch
- Nina Foch (; born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch American actress.
- After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19, 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 50 feature films and over 100 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 Oscar 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 from 1951 until 2007.
- In 1968, Foch portrayed the victim in the first of Peter Falk's "Columbo" films.
- 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 40 years until her death in 2008.
