Elina Löwensohn

Born in Bucharest in 1967, Lowensohn lived there until she was 14, with her father, a concentration camp survivor who was an official with the Ceausescu regime, and her mother, a noted ballet dancer and teacher. After the family defected to the U.S. and settled in New York, Lowensohn went on to study theatre at the University of Michigan and at New York University's Playwrights Horizon School. Her first break came courtesy of director Hartley, who, as legend has it, discovered the actress when she was working as a waitress in a New York diner. He subsequently cast her opposite fellow Hartley regular "William Sage" as one half of a... Full Biography