Faina Ranevskaya
Born in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia] — Aug 27 1896• Died Jul 19 1984
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Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (born Faina Girschevna Feldman, on August 27th, 1896 in Taganrog), was a Soviet theatre and film actress. She is also very well known for her cheeky aphorisms. In childhood, she attended the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls, receiving additional education usual for someone from an affluent family (music, singing, foreign languages). Heavily influenced by her mother's love for the arts, Ranevskaya had a budding interest in theatre and by the age of 14 was attending classes at the private theatre studio of A. Jagiello (A.N. Go…
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Fuse
Легенды кино
Self (archive footage)
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
An Easy Life
Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot
Cinderella
Stepmother
Wedding
Настасья Тимофеевна Жигалова (мать невесты)
Boule de Suif
Mme. Loiseau
Spring
Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper
Junior and Karlson
Фрекен Бок
Man in a Shell
жена инспектора
Meeting on the Elbe
Mrs. MacDermott
Karlson Returns
Freken Bok (voice)
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
female pianist (uncredited)
Native Shores
The New Adventures of Schweik
The Rest Is Silence
Lucy Cooper
The Ballad of Cossack Golota
Be Careful, Grandma!
Elena Timofeevna
New Attraction Today
Ada Konstantinovna
The Beloved
Marya Ivanovna
A Girl with Guitar
Sviristinskaya
The Sky Slow-Mover
military doctor, professor of medicine
They Have a Motherland
Engineer Kochin's Error
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Babarikha (voice)
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Горпина
The Foundling
Lyalya (as F.G. Ranevskaya)
Dream
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
An Elephant and a Rope
Grandmother
Old Masters
Self
Drama
Murashkina