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 films. Her mother was American actress Consuela Flowerton, who returned to the U.S. after her marriage to Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock collapsed.
Her movie fame was during the height of the 1940s in which she played cool, aloof and often foreign women of sophistication. She has been featured in over 80 feature films and hundreds of television shows, most notably as a regular in John Houseman's Playhouse 90 series. In 1951, she co-starred with Gene Kelly in An American in Paris.
In 1952, Foch played Marie Antoinette in Scaramouche. Another noteworthy role for Foch 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 film Executive Suite.
On television, she was cast in the first pilot Columbo movie, as well as Prescription: Murder. More recently she appeared on Just Shoot Me, Bull and NCIS.
Nina Foch currently teaches "Directing the Actor" at the USC Cinema, 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.
