Elisabeth Bergner

(1897-1986)

Austrian-German actress

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Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. She played Gemma, first in London and then in the Broadway debut, and in a film version for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she won the Distinguished Performance Medal from the Drama League.

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Born	Elisabeth Ettel 22 August 1897 Drogobych, Ukraine
Died	12 May 1986 (aged 88) London, England
Zodiac	Leo
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