The sophisticated woman

Foch suffered from myelodysplasia, a disease that caused his death at the Ronald Reagan Center . A week earlier, he was still teaching at the University of Southern California (USC) Film School.

The actress, who had a multi-ethnic name, Nina Consuelo Maud Fock, was born in Leiden, the Netherlands in 1924. Her father was a renowned Dutch composer and conductor, Dirk Fock, and her mother, Consuelo Flowerton, was an actress from the Silent film era that worked as a secondary in titles such as The Lady of the Camellias , with Rudolph Valentino. When she was very young, her parents separated and she went to live in New York with her mother. She has always been very interested in various artistic disciplines. She was a versatile woman, who during her youth stood out as a painter, sculptor and concert pianist. She, however, ended up captivated by cinema and theater and studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York. She received classes from the legendary Lee Strasberg, and became an actress of the method, a firm defender of this technique.

After partially changing her last name ‘Fock’ to ‘Foch’, the actress dedicated herself for some time to the theater in different states, and at the age of 19 she obtained a contract with Columbia. She made her big screen debut in The Return of the Vampire , starring Bela Lugosi . She also played a memorable role in Charles Vidor ‘s Unforgettable Song , a Chopin biography , and was the title character in My Name is Julia Ross , a memorable film noir. For her role in The Tower of the Ambitious she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting.

Nina Foch was married three times, and had a son, although all of her marriages ended in divorce. She obtained the greatest cinematographic successes of her in the field of big blockbusters, because in The Ten Commandments , she was Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh who picks up Moses from the river. In Spartacus she had a very secondary role, as Helena Glabro, the manipulative sister of Marcus Glabrus, the friend and protégé of Crassus ( Laurence Olivier ). The actress also starred in Rich and Famous and Sliver , as well as in such famous television series as Lou Grant , Murder, She Wrote , and Colombo , where she was the first murder victim.

Nina Foch also served as an assistant director to George Stevens on The Diary of Anne Frank . She became a director of theatrical productions and of the telefilm Bendición familiar . Since the 1960s, she has devoted herself to teaching with great intensity.