Lilia Skala

Lilia Skala lived a life that reads like a screenplay. Born in Vienna and trained as an architect at the Dresden University of Technology, she later earned an Academy Award nomination for Lilies of the Field, plus two Golden Globe nods and an Emmy nomination. What moves me most is the boldness of her pivot: walking away from a solid technical profession to reinvent herself as an actor, and doing it well into the second half of a near-century-long life. She's living proof to me that it's never too late to bloom again.

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Name (English)

Lilia Skala

Name (Japanese)

リリア・スカラ

Reading

りりあ・すから

Born

November 28, 1896 – December 18, 1994

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / architect / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilia%20Skala
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113672

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.