profile image

Elza Radziņa

Feb 10, 1917 - Aug 18, 2005 (88 years old) in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet Latvian theater and cinema actress, master of the spoken word (reader). She received award of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of the Three Stars in 1995.

She studied in Jelgava theater studio in 1942. After the World War II worked in Jelgava Drama theater (1945-1953). For a brief moment she worked in Valmiera Drama theater, but from 1954 worked in Latvian National Theater, where she became one of the leading actresses.

In 1949 she made her debut in biographical drama film "Rainis" from Riga Film Studio.

Known For

poster
Theatre
Dolli de Friz
poster
The Swamp Wader
Horsta madāma
poster
How the Steel Was Tempered
редактор газеты Ирина Александровна
poster
Hamlet
Gertrude
poster
Secret of the Blackbirds
miss Effie Ramsbottom
poster
King Lear
Goneril

Credits

Images