Ida Kamińska

Ida Kamińska

1899-09-04 – 1980-05-21 (age 80) Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
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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.

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The Shop on Main Street
The Shop on Main Street

1965

as Rozalia Lautmannová

The Angel Levine
The Angel Levine

1970

as Fanny Mishkin

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Tkies khaf

1924

as Rachel Kronenberg - daughter

The Black Dress
The Black Dress

1967

as Karola

Without a Home
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