---
name: "Ida Kamińska"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ida-kaminska"
fi1m_id: "ida-kaminska"
imdb_id: "nm0436706"
tmdb_id: 233289
wikidata_id: "Q284087"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 September 1899"
died: "21 May 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:44:53.148905+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ida Kamińska

## Identity

Ida Kamińska

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ida-kaminska
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ida-kaminska
- **IMDb ID:** nm0436706
- **TMDB ID:** 233289
- **Wikidata ID:** Q284087
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Kami%C5%84ska, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284087, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0436706/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233289

Actor. Born 4 September 1899 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. Died 21 May 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 September 1899, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
- **Died:** 21 May 1980
- **Also known as:** Ида Каминска
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Kami%C5%84ska, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284087, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0436706/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233289

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Shop on Main Street*](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md) (90)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ida Kamińska was a Polish actress and theatre director. Born on 4 September 1899 in Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she was the daughter of Yiddish stage actors Ester Rachel Kamińska and Abraham Izaak Kamiński.

She began performing on stage as a child and later founded and directed her own theatre companies. Kamińska managed the Jewish State Theater of Poland from 1945 until 1968. She is known for her leading role as Rozália Lautmannová in the Czechoslovak film *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Kamińska immigrated to the United States in 1968. She died in New York City on 21 May 1980.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com, sztetl.org.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), Fi1m 90, as Rozalia Lautmannová — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Angel Levine* (1970), as Fanny Mishkin
- *The Black Dress* (1967), as Karola
- *The Shop on Main Street* (1965), as Rozalia Lautmannová — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-on-main-street.md)
- *Without a Home* (1939), Actor
- *Tkies khaf* (1924), as Rachel Kronenberg - daughter
- *Małżeństwo na rozdrożu* (1916), Actor
- *The Stepmother* (1914), Actor
- *Bigamistka* (1913), Actor
- *Mirele Efros* (1912), Actor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1967: Best Actress (nominated), for *The Shop on Main Street*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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