Ada Voytsik


Ada Ignatievna Voytsik was a Soviet actress and recipient of the title of RSFSR Honored Artist.

Biography

Ada Ignatievna Voytsik was born on 1 August 1905 in Moscow.
In 1923 Ada graduated from secondary school and entered the acting department of the State College of Cinematography, where she graduated in 1927.
She started acting in cinema in the year 1925. In 1934 Ada Voytsik joined the staff of the Mosfilm film studio.
She married director Ivan Pyryev and they had a son, Erik Pyryev, who also subsequently became a director.
In 1941 together with the studio she was evacuated to Alma-Ata.
On her return to Moscow in 1943, Ada became an actress at the National Film Actors' Theatre, where she worked until her retirement in 1961.
In the last years of her life, Ada Voytsik did not appear in films.
Ada Voytsik lived through the death of her son and husband. She died in Moscow on 2 September 1982 at the age of 77, and was buried in the Khovanskoye Cemetery, in Moscow.

Selected filmography

  • Kak Mitya Tyurin zanimalsya fizkulturoy
  • Rasplata as Lisa
  • The Forty-First as Maryutka
  • Raznostoronniy treugolnik as Wifey
  • Bulat-Batır as Asma
  • Svoi i chuzhiye as Shura
  • The House on Trubnaya as Fenya
  • The Doll With Millions as Maria Ivanova
  • The Happy Canary as Brio's wife
  • Ukhod za bolnym as Nurse
  • Nenavist as Stefa
  • Konveer smerti as Luisa
  • Partiynyy bilet as Anna Kulikova
  • The Oppenheim Family as Liselotte Lavendal Oppenheim
  • The Murderers are Coming as Marta
  • Dream as Vanda
  • Once There Was a Girl as Nastenka's Mother
  • Ivan the Terrible as Elena Glinskaya
  • Attack from the Sea as Queen Carolina
  • Syn
  • Puti i sudby as Maria Vasilyevna
  • Delo N. 306 as Yelizaveta Nekrasova
  • Raznye sudby as Mariya Morozova
  • Moya doch as Lidiya Arkadyevna
  • Prizvaniye as Maria Pavlovna
  • Rozhdyonnye burey as Yadviga Rayevskaya
  • Ivan the Terrible Part II as Elena Glinskaya
  • Soldatskoye serdtse as Anna Kryshko
  • Sampo as Mother of Lemminkäinen
  • Lyuboy tsenoy as Shura's mother
  • Kolybelnaya as Yekaterina Borisovna
  • Nine Days in One Year as Maria Tikhonovna
  • Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya
  • ''All the King's Men''