Lilia Skala est une actrice américaine d'origine autrichienne, née le 28 novembre 1896 à Vienne (Autriche) et morte le 18 décembre 1994 (à 98 ans).

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Skala was born Lilia Sofer in Vienna, Austria. Her mother, Katharina Skala, was Catholic, and her father, Julius Sofer, was Jewish and worked as a manufacturers representative for the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company. Skala was one of the first women to graduate in architecture and engineering from the University of Dresden, before practicing architecture professionally in Vienna.

In the late 1930s, she was forced to flee her Nazi-occupied homeland with her husband, Louis Erich Skala, and their two young sons. (Lilia and Erich adopted the non-Jewish sounding surname of Lilia's mother.) Skala and her husband managed to escape (at different times) from Austria and eventually settled in the United States.

Skala was a Christian Scientist. She was introduced to the religion in Vienna in the 1920s.

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