Actresses

Alexandra Sorina (* 17th September 1899 in Baranovichi, A native Alexandra Zwikewitsch, † 31st May 1973 in San Rafael, California, USA) was a Russian Actress. Life The native Belarusian Zwikewitsch Alexandra , the eldest of four siblings , wanted to actually become a concert pianist and studied the midst of World War I on the mother's request in St. Petersburg Dentistry. In 1917 the family fled the turmoil of revolution by PolandWhere the young dentist opened a practice . In Warsaw Antin was the attractive exile approached by a movie studio and asked if they would not like to work as a film actress. Subsequently, the UFA attention to the young artist and brought immedi…

Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, author and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years,[1] and later as author of the two New York Times bestsellers,[2] Math Doesn't Suck, and Kiss My Math, which encourage middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.[3] Early lifeBorn in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother, Mahalia, is a homemaker, and her father, Chris McKellar, is a real estate developer.[4] Her family is "a big mix of Western Europe";[5] her mother's ancestry is Portuguese via the Azores…

Anita Evelyn Pomares (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008), better known as Anita Page, was an American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. She became a highly popular young star, reportedly at one point receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. When Page died in 2008 at age 98, she was the last surviving "famous" film star of the silent era except for child actresses such as Baby Peggy and Baby Marie. A few silent leading ladies who did not achieve wide fame survive her. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s. Early life Page was born in Fl…

Alice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress. Film star Born Alice Beatrice Calhoun in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in a role not credited in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films between then and 1929. As a star with Vitagraph in New York City, she moved with the company when it relocated to Hollywood. In the comedy, The Man Next Door (1923), Calhoun plays Bonnie Bell. A critic complimented her on being pretty and playing her role successfully.The Man From Brodney's (1923) is a movie which displays the fencing talent of actor J. Warren Kerrigan. Directed by David Smith for Vitagraph, the film is bas…

Asta Nielsen (11 September 1881 - 24 May 1972), was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta). Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences. Due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were heavily censored in the United States and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theat…

Anita Stewart (February 7, 1895 – May 4, 1961) was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era. Early life and career Born in Brooklyn, New York as Anna May Stewart, she began her acting career in 1911 while still attending Erasmus High School in extra and bit parts for the Vitagraph film studios at their New York City location. Stewart was one of the earliest film actresses to achieve public recognition in the nascent medium of motion pictures and achieved a great deal of acclaim early in her acting career. Among her earlier popular roles were 1911's enormous box office hit adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, directed by William J.Humphrey, and …

Alice Joyce (born October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955) was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess. Personal life Alice Joyce was born in Kansas City, Missouri to John Edward and Vallie Olive McIntyre Joyce (1873-1938). She had a brother, Francis "Frank" Joyce (1893-1935), who was 2 years younger who later became an entertainment manager. By 1900, her parent's marriage fell apart, and her father, John, took custody of little Alice and Frank and moved to Falls Church, Virginia, where Joyce spent most of her childhood. According t…

Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria. Biography Early life Valli was born in Pola, Istria, Italy (today Pula, Croatia), to parents who both had mixed ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also: Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from Trento, a descendant of the Counts d'Arco; her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi f…

Lyudmila Savelyeva Source: IMDb Date of Birth: 24 January 1942, Leningrad, Soviet Union [now St. Petersburg, Russia] "Anna Karenina" (2009) TV mini-series .... Princess Shcherbatskaya Tender Age (2000) ... aka "Nezhnyy vozrast" - Russia (original title) ... aka "The Gentle Age" - International (English title) Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi (1989) .... Alexandra's mother Wild Pigeon (1986) ... aka "Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy" - Soviet Union (original title) Nam ne dano predugadat (1984) Uspekh (1984) (as L. Savelyeva) .... Inna ... aka "Success" - International (English title) (informal literal title) Shyol chetvyortyy god voyny (19…

Marjorie Main (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Early life and career Born Mary Tomlinson in Boggstown, Indiana, Main attended Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, Samuel J. Tomlinson (married to Jennie L. McGaughey), who was a minister. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Main began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering,…

Bonnie Kathleen Wright[1] (born 17 February 1991)[2] is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series. Early life and educationWright was born in London, England, the daughter of Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, jewellery designers who together run their own company, Wright & Teague. She has an older brother named Lewis. Wright attended Prior Western Primary and later the King Alfred School in North London for her secondary education. During the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Wright began attending London's University of the Arts to study Film and Television Production. She plans to continue acting …

Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in fourteen films together, including several subsequent Thin Man films. Early life Loy was born Myrna Adele Williams to Adelle Mae and rancher David Franklin Williams in Radersburg, Montana, a small town near Helena.She was of Welsh and Scottish ancestry.Loy's firs…

Source: IMDb Tatiana Samoilova (Tatyana Samojlova) is a Russian film actress known for the leading roles in The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and Anna Karenina (1967). She was born on May 4, 1934, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. Her father, Yevgeni Samojlov, was a notable Russian actor, Her mother, Zinaida Ilyinichna, was Jewish. Young Samojlova studied music under the tutelage of her mother. During the Second World War, she escaped from the siege of Leningrad with her parents, and moved to Moscow. There she studied ballet and graduated from the Ballet School of Stanislavsky Theatre. She was invited by Maya Plisetskaya to join the ballet school of Bolshoi Theatre, but s…

Source: IMDb Anastasia Vertinskaya is a popular Russian actress and public figure best known for her roles as Assol in Alye parusa (1961) and Ophelia in Hamlet (1964). She was born on December 19, 1944, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (now Moscow, Russia). Her father, Aleksandr Vertinsky, was a famous Russian actor, singer and songwriter, who returned from his emigration in China to Moscow during the Second World War. Her mother, Lidiya Vertinskaya (Lidia Vladimirovna Tsirgvava), was also a Russian émigré who was born into a Georgian-Russian family in Kharbin, and her older sister, Marianna Vertinskaya, was born in 1943, in Shanghai, China. Young Anastasia Vertinskaya had…

Source: IMDb Svetlana Svetlichnaya Date of Birth: 15 May 1940, Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia] Filmography The Goddess (2004) .... Mom the ghost ... aka "Boginya: kak ya polyubila" - Russia (original title) ... aka "The Goddess: How I Fell in Love" - International (English title) (informal literal title) Day of Wrath (1985) .... Zhenschina s razvalin ... aka "Den gneva" - Soviet Union (original title) Anna Pavlova (1983) Nedopesok Napoleon III (1979) "Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya" (1979) TV mini-series .... Larisa's sister Ty - mne, ya - tebe (1976) .... Valya Kogda drozhit zemlya (1975) .... Irina Sakrytyje sesona (1974) Skvorets i Lira (19…

Source: IMDb Natalya Seleznyova Date of Birth: 19 June 1945, Moscow, Russia Filmography Aferisty (2008) (TV) Vy ne ostavite menya (2006) Sin neudachnika (2002) (TV) "The Smile of Melometa" (2002) TV series ... aka "Ulybka Melomety" - Russia (original title) Impotent (2001) Starye pesni o glavnom 3 (1998) (TV) .... Zinaida Mikhailovna ... aka "Old Songs of the Main Things 3" - International (English title) (informal title) Yubiley prokurora (1998) Starye pesni o glavnom 2 (1997) (TV) ... aka "Old Songs of the Main Things 2" - International (English title) (informal title) "Dom" (1995) TV series Love-Service (1995) ... aka "Lov-servis" - Russia (original title) …

Source: IMDb Natalya Varley Date of birth: 22 June 1947, Constanta, Romania. In the late 50-ies Varley family settled in Moscow. Filmography Volkodav iz roda Serykh Psov (2007) .... Mat Kendarat ... aka "Wolfhound" - International (English title) (short title) ... aka "Wolfhound from the Tribe of Grey Dogs" - International (English title) (informal literal title) ... aka "Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan" - International (English title) (long title) Starye pesni o glavnom 2 (1997) (TV) .... Nina ... aka "Old Songs of the Main Things 2" - International (English title) (informal title) Volshebnik izumrudnogo goroda (1994) .... Bastinda/Gingema ... aka "The Wizard of the Ci…

Source: IMDb Tamara Syomina Date of birth: 25 October 1938, Kaluga, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia] Filmography Kto prikhodit v zimniy vecher... (2007) .... Maid Maestro vor (1994) The Executor (1992) ... aka "Ispolnitel prigovora" - Russia (original title) Vverkh tormashkami (1992) Kazyonnyy dom (1989) Bomzh (Bez opredelyonnogo mesta zhitelstva) (1988) Seraya mysh (1988) Proshchay, shpana zamoskvoretskaya (1987) Vera (1986) Yeshchyo lyublyu, yeshchyo nadeyus (1985) Osoboye podrazdeleniye (1984) Naydi na schastye podkovu (1983) Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitiye (1983) Formula sveta (1982) Tayna zapisnoy knizhki (1981) Dym otechestva (1980) ... ak…

Source: IMDb Elina Bystritskaya is a Soviet - Russian actress best known as Aksinya in And Quiet Flows the Don (1957) by director Aleksandr Gerasimov. She was born on April 4, 1928, in Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her father, Avraam Petrovich Bystritsky, was a notable medical doctor in Kiev, her mother, Esther Isaakovna, was a medical administrator. Young Elina Bystritskaya worked as a medical nurse helping her parents in a Soviet military hospital during the Second World War. She was decorated by the Soviet State for her contribution to the Victory in the Second World War. From 1944 - 1947 she studied as a medical nurse at Nezhin Nursing School, graduating in 1947 as gyn…

Source: Wikipedia Ludmila Chursina was born July 20, 1941 in the evacuation of Stalinabad (now - Dushanbe). Source: IMDb Films "Lovushka" (2009) TV mini-series .... Aloiza ... aka "Snare" - International (English title) (informal title) Khochu rebenka (2008) (TV) "Pogonya za angelom" (2007) TV series "Zastava" (2007) TV mini-series .... Ratnikov's Mother Vaktsina (2007) (TV) .... Tamara Rysak (2005) .... Commissar "Poteryavshye solntse" (2005) TV mini-series .... Mother of Solityansky "Drugaya zhizn" (2003) TV series .... (2003) "Chyornaya komnata" (1 episode, 2000) - Affectus (2000) TV episode Hagi-Tragger (1994) Kodeks beshchestiya (1993) "Goryachev i dr…

Source: wikipedia Izolda Vasilyevna Izvitskaya (Russian: Изольда Васильевна Извицкая, June 21, 1932 Dzerzhinsk, Russia - March 1, 1971 Moscow) was a Soviet actress. Isolda Izvitskaya was born in the small town of Dzerzhinsk. Her father was a chemist, her mother a teacher. Right after high school she was accepted to VGIK (the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography). She was given small parts in several movies while still a student. In 1955 she was chosen for the lead in The Forty-First, a film after a short story by Boris Lavrenyov. The film was very successful all over the country and in 1957 it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival where it got a very good reception…

Source: wikipedia Natalya Gundareva (August 28, 1948 - May 15, 2005) - Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. One of the leading and popular actresses of the Soviet cinema. Awards and prizes Best actress of the year in the polls of the journal "Soviet Screen" (1977, 1981, 1985, 1990) Lenin Komsomol Award (1978) State Prize of the RSFSR (1980) Prize of the IX International Festival in Bulgaria (1981) USSR State Prize (1984) People's Artist of Russia (1986) Russian Union of Cinematographers Award "Nika" in the category "Actress of the Year" (1990) Prize "Diamond Crown" Russian Festival "Constellation" (1990) Prize at the International Film Festival in Montreal …

Source: wikipedia Irina Alferova Date of birth: 13/03/1951 Novosibirsk, USSR (Russia) Honored Artist of Russia (1992) People's Artist of Russia (2007) The biggest film role - Constance in a musical adventure series "The Three Musketeers". Roles in movies: 1.1970 - Silver Pipe 2.1971 - Senya 3.1972 - music teacher - Tamara 4.1977 - Black birch 5.1977 - Road to Calvary - Dasha 6.1978 - Autumn bells - queen 7.1979 - The Three Musketeers - Constance Bonacieux 8.1979 - Do not part with loved ones - Katia 9.1979 - exile № 011 10.1980 - an uninvited friend - Kira 11.1981 - Courage - Clara 12.1982 - for no apparent reason - Nina Plyusnina 13.1982 - Vasily Buslaev - X…

Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors. Onscreen she co-starred in commercially successful films with Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle, occasionally writing and directing movies featuring Chaplin. At the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Normand had her own movie studio and production company. Throughout the 1920s her name was linked with widely publicized scandals including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 sh…

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish. Early life The Gish sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell "Gish", supported the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish, abandoned the family. When they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were brought into their mother's act, and they also modeled. In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced them to director D.W. Griffith, and the sisters began acting at the Biograph Studios. Dorothy and Lillian Gish both debuted in Griffith's An Unseen Enemy. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many …