Famous People with Name Angelica

Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu: was a Jewish Romanian and Israeli table tennis player, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.

Angelica Domröse            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Angelica Domröse: is a German actress, who became famous in the role of Paula in Heiner Carow's film "The Legend of Paul and Paula". Her Mediterranian appearance is the result of her biological father being a POW from France. After training as a shorthand typist Domröse worked in a state-run foreign trade enterprise in East Germany. In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1966 she joined the Berliner Ensemble, where among other things she performed in Brecht's "Dreigroschenoper", "Schwejk im zweiten Weltkrieg" and "Die Tage der Commune", as well as in Helmut Baierl's "Frau Flinz". She later worked with the Volksbühne Berlin until 1979, with whom she performed in plays by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and Peter Hacks.

Angelica Zawadzki            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Angelica Zawadzki: is a Mexican sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Mother Angelica,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mother Angelica,: is an American Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Eternal Word Television Network.Rita's childhood was marred by poverty and unhappiness as she grew up during the Great Depression. Looking back upon this time in her life, Angelica described herself and her mother as being "like a pair of refugees. We were poor, hungry, and barely surviving on odd jobs before mother learned the dry cleaning business as an apprentice to a Jewish tailor in our area. Even then, we pinched pennies just to keep food on the table."