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Nina Foch (born Nina
Consuela Maud Fock on April 20,
1924, in Leiden, Netherlands)
is a Dutch-born American
actress and leading lady in
many 1940s and '50s films.
 Early
Life
Nina Foch was born on April
20,1924. Her mother was
American actress Consuela
Flowerton, who returned to the
U.S. after her marriage to
Dutch classical music conductor
Dirk Fock when they divorced
when she was a toddler. Growing
up in New York, her mother
encouraged her artistic talent.
She played the piano and
enjoyed art, but was more
interested in acting.
Career
Foch's movie fame came during
the height of the 1940s when
she played cool, aloof and
often foreign women of
sophistication. She ultimately
would be featured in over 80
feature films and hundreds of
television shows.
The actress was a regular in
John Houseman's Playhouse 90
television series. In 1951, she
appeared with Gene Kelly in the
award-winning musical An
American in Paris.
Foch later played Marie
Antoinette in Scaramouche.
Another noteworthy role came as
Bithiah in Cecil B. DeMille's
The Ten Commandments, in which
she played the Pharaoh's
daughter who found the baby
Moses in the bullrushes and
adopted him as her son. She was
actually a year younger than
Charlton Heston, who played
Moses.
Foch was nominated for an
Academy Award for her
supporting role in the 1954
boardroom drama Executive
Suite, starring William
Holden.
She appeared in 1960's
Spartacus opposite Kirk Douglas
and Laurence Olivier as a woman
who chooses gladiators to fight
to the death in the ring,
simply for her
entertainment.
On television, she was cast as
the first murder victim of the
Columbo mystery series starring
Peter Falk, appearing in the
pilot movie, Prescription:
Murder (1968), with Gene Barry
as her husband, a homicidal
psychiatrist.
More recently, she appeared on
the television series Just
Shoot Me, Bull and NCIS.
Nina Foch currently teaches
"Directing the Actor" at the
USC School of Cinematic Arts,
where she has taught since the
1960s.
She also works as an
independent script-breakdown
consultant for many prominent
Hollywood directors. She lives
in Beverly Hills, California,
as she has for forty years, and
has one child, a son, Dr. Dirk
de Brito.
Foch's first husband was James
Lipton of Inside the Actor's
Studio fame.
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