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Birthplace:
Bucharest, Romania
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With an exotic, dark appearance and an Eastern European mystery, Elina Lowensohn, a rising actress in mostly independent films, is a performer considered to have the kind of expressive looks that would have played well in silent movies. Filmgoers will long remember her performance as a Jewish architect shot by Ralph Fiennes simply because she knows how to construct a building's foundation in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (1993). Lowensohn's own background included both concentration camp victims and survivors. Her grandparents died in the cattle cars on the way to camps, while her
1980
Came to US after her mother staged protests at the US State Department in effort to have Lowensohn and her brother be released from Romania
After dropping out of NYU, worked in theatrical productions directed by Travis Preston
1991
Film debut, Hal Hartley's short "Theory of Achievement"
1992
First feature role in Hartley's "Amateur"
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