- Divorced in 1938, she moved to the United States via Britain. She spoke no English at that time, and had to take a job as a factory worker until, after intensive language study, she landed a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious, in which she played Claude Rains' mother, although she was only 3 years older than he.
- Austrian theatre and film character actress, on stage at the Deutsche Theater in Berlin from 1907. Acted in German sound films during the first half of the 1930's, before moving to Britain and then to the United States. Best remembered internationally for her sole Hollywood film role, as the autocratic, venomous mother of Claude Rains (who was just three years her junior) in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946).
- Lost her son during a bomb attack on London in World War II.
- Her most important movie in the USA was Hitchcock's "Notorious (1948).
- In 1923 she had a house built in Westerland for herself and her son Alexander.
- At the beginning of her American exile she was forced to work in a factory before stage engagement and few movies followed little by little.
- In 1938 she went via London - where she lost her son during the last German air raid to London - into the American exile.
- Her first appearances in movies can be back-dated to 1912. She was set in "Die Hand des Schicksals".
- In 1948 she returned to Vienna but couldn't go on from her earlier successes.
- She performed in two television series in 1948 and returned to Vienna.
- Her last acting work involved sporadic theatre roles and poetry readings on the radio.
- In 1924 she married Hungarian counselor and author Géza Herczeg.
- Between 1921 and 1933 she didn't shot any movies but concentrated more on the theater.
- She took acting lessons with Alexander Strakosch, whom she married shortly afterwards, and made her debut in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1907.
- She played in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening (1907), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1907), A Winter's Tale (1908), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1910). From 1911 she was to be found at the Kammerspielen in Berlin and became known in the Berlin salons. She moved to Vienna in 1916 and by 1924 she was playing the title role in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart.
- Since 1912 she acted on the Berliner Reinhardt stage but after a lawsuit with Reinhardt she changed to Vienna in 1916; not till 1919 she returned to Berlin.
- In the late 20s the hard work payed and the criticism reacted by surprise onto her sensitive realization in the play "Finden Sie, dass sich Constanze richtig verhält?" (1928).
- The actress Leopoldine Konstantin achieved the attention of the criticism in 1910 for the first time when she played Maria in the play "Gawan" in Berlin.
- Starting in 1912 she also played in silent films, initially in title roles. She turned away from this medium when, after the First World War, she was offered increasingly minor parts.
- In 1935 she followed her husband Geza Herczeg to Austria and played among other things in "Andere Welt" (1937).
- Her strong fixing into a gestic and mimic repertoire - most variations of a ladylike type - led her merely to better supporting roles at the beginning of the 20s. Still her popularity kept unbreakable.
- Together with the sound film the demandings to her roles grew.
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