Nina Foch

Nina Foch n i n . f was a DutchAmerican actress of film, stage, and television. After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age nineteen, the tall, blonde Foch became a regular in the studios horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid1940s through the 1950s, often playing roles as cool, aloof sophisticates. Her career spanned six decades, consisting of over fifty feature films and over one hundred television appearances.

Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, ZuidHolland, Netherlands, to American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton and Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and she and her mother moved to the United States, settling in New York City. As Foch grew up in her mother encouraged her artistic talents she learned piano and enjoyed art but was more interested in acting. After graduating from the Lincoln School, Foch attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and also studied method acting under Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler.

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