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- Birth nameHelena Woynowiczówna
- Helena Makowska was born on March 2, 1893 in Krivoy Rog, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Hamlet (1917), Der Schuß im Pavillon (1925) and Il fiacre n. 13 (1917). She was married to Botteril, Julian Makowski and Karl Falckenberg. She died on August 22, 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- SpousesBotterilJulian Makowski(? - 1906) (divorced)Karl Falckenberg (divorced)
- She continued her career on stage and in movies in the 20s.
- She also began her film career in Italy and she impersonated numerous roles during the 10s in movies like "Il sogno di un tramonto d'autunno" (1911), "Romanticismo" (1915) and "Centocelle" (1919).
- When her family moved to Warsaw she was able to gain a foothold on stage there and she impersonated smaller roles at the beginning. Finally she went to Italy at the age of 19 where she became established as a stage actress in Milan, among others also as an opera singer in "Un ballo in maschera" (1914).
- The actress Helena Makowska was born as Elena Woyniewicz in the Russian Kriwoi Rog.
- She got arrested by the Gestapo in November 1939 and she remained in imprisonment till 1943.
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