Biography

The daughter of Bretislav Lvovsky, a.k.a. Emil Pick (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer, Lovsky was born in Vienna, where she trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She was a rising stage star in Vienna and Berlin in 1929, when she met future husband Peter Lorre. Celia accompanied the Jewish Lorre when he fled Hitler's Berlin to Vienna in 1933, then to Paris, then London where they married during the filming of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), in which Celia had an uncredited bit as a Russian aristocrat.

Although she accompanied Lorre to Hollywood, she did not act professionally while married; but, after their divorce in 1945, she became a Hollywood character actress, appearing in over 40 films between 1947-73, and some 200 television appearances between 1952 and 1974. Due to her accent, she played mostly European-born characters, often dignified or aristocratic; occasionally Hispanics, once a Native American (!), and T'Pau, the ruler of the planet Vulcan on Amok Time (1967). She remained a close friend of her former husband until his death in 1964, aged 59. She died of natural causes in 1979, at age 82.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rod Crawford/Robert Sieger

Along with Felix Locher, Judith Anderson, Morgan Farley, Richard Hale, Anthony Jochim, Leonard Mudie, Charles Seel, Bill Borzage, Abraham Sofaer and Ian Wolfe, she is one of only eleven "Star Trek" actors to have been born in the 19th Century. She played T'Pau in Amok Time (1967).

While making her famous guest appearance in the classic 'Star Trek' episode 'Amok Time'. She was unable to do the 'Vulcan salute' by herself. The filming crew taped her fingers together in the groups, and placed her hand flat on the armrest of her chair in the configuration. She then simply raised her hand into view, already in the salute.