Ida Kamińska
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 4, 1899
- Place of birth
- Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
- Died
- May 21, 1980
Biography
Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated actress. She 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.
From Wikipedia.
Movies with Ida Kamińska
- The Shop on Main Street 1965 · ★ 7.1
- The Angel Levine 1970 · ★ 5.4
- Tkies khaf 1924 · ★ 5.4
- Without a Home 1939 · ★ 10.0
- The Black Dress 1967 · ★ 7.0
- Małżeństwo na rozdrożu 1916
- Bigamistka 1913
- The Stepmother 1914
- Mirele Efros 1912