Celia Lovsky

Celia Lovsky ( born February 21, 1897 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † October 12, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an Austrian- American actress.

Life

It was as Cecilia Lvovsky in Vienna, born to Bratislav Lvovsky (1857-1910), a prominent Czech composer. Your birthday is stated by some sources with the February 12, from others with February 21.

She studied theater at the Royal Austrian art and music academy. Lovsky had received a song, dance, and drama school and began her artistic career in 1916 at the Vienna Court Opera. Not until 1922 that she could get her next party commitment, this time to the New Viennese stage. Later we saw the actress also at Frankfurt Schauspielhaus Berlin theaters. They later moved to Berlin, where she met her future husband Peter Lorre. The couple traveled to Paris, London and the USA. In 1933 she left her husband and fled Germany over Austria and Great Britain to the United States. In Hollywood, she sat under the slightly altered name Celia Lovsky continued their in Berlin at the beginning of the sound film era started work. Cecilia Lovsky and Peter Lorre divorced in 1945.

Recently the artist found one or the other task in television productions. Your last role was in 1974 in the series " The Streets of San Francisco ". Their most famous role is probably that of T'Pau in the Star Trek episode Amok Time. It is one of the few Star Trek actors who were born in the 19th century.

Filmography (selection)

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