Alisa Freindlich


Alisa Brunovna Freindlich is a Russian actress. Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.

Biography

Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the USSR. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During World War II, she survived the 900-day-long Nazi siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war.
In the 1950s, Freindlich studied acting at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961, she was a member of the troupe at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance, the long-banned epic Agony and Andrei Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker. Another notable role was Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years After and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After.
In 1999, Igor Vladimirov, Freindlich's second husband, died after a long illness, and three years later, her father, Bruno Arturovich, also died.

2000–present

On her 70th birthday, she was visited by Vladimir Putin in her Saint Petersburg apartment, who awarded her with the State Prize of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.
In 2004 film, Freindlich starred in On Upper Maslovka Street after a 10-year hiatus. Her partner on the set was the young actor Yevgeny Mironov. She starred as 87-year-old sculptor Anna Borisovna, who lives out her life in an old workshop.
Despite the mixed reception of the film by film critics, Freindlich's acting was highly praised by journalists and critics. Yeaterina Tarkhanova, a columnist for film.ru, noted that she "performs the "old woman sketch" absolutely flawlessly: plastically, facially, intonation." Igor Mikhailov from kino.ru said:
For this role, Freindlich was awarded her second Nika Award for Best Actress.
In 2009, Freindlich starred in Room and a Half, which won a Nika Award. She starred as the mother of the poet Joseph Brodsky.
On 7 December 2009, on the stage of the Great Hall of the Central House of Actors named after Yablochkina, the Theatrical Star 2009 award ceremony was held. Freindlich was nominated "For Best Improvisation" for her role as Madeleine in Lessons of Tango and Love.
On 5 December 2014, in honor of Friendlich's 80-year anniversary, an exhibition dedicated to the history of her family, titled Theater Dynasties of Freindlich, was opened in St. Petersburg at the Museum-Apartment of Samoilov Actors, Stremyannaya, 8.
As of 2019, Freindlich was performing in nine productions of the Bolshoi Drama in Saint Petersburg, where she is a leading actress.

Personal life

Freindlich is a member of the United Russia party.

Selected filmography

  • Unfinished Story as episode
  • Talents and Admirers as episode
  • Immortal Song as gymnasium student
  • The City Turns the Lights On as Zina Pichikova
  • ' as Galya
  • Striped Trip as barmaid
  • ' as Natasha Bukova
  • ' as Tanya
  • Adventures of a Dentist as Masha
  • The City and the Song as singer
  • To Love as Anya
  • ' as Marusya
  • Yesterday, Today and Forever as defendant's wife
  • Family Happiness as Anna Semyonovna Kapitonova
  • The Secret of the Iron Door as Lyusa Ryzhkova, Tolik's mother
  • My Life as Kleopatra Polozneva
  • ' as Yevgenia Sinegrach
  • Melodies of Vera Quarter as Alisa Akvamarinskaya
  • The Taming of the Shrew as Katherina
  • ' as Anna
  • The Straw Hat as Baroness de Champigny
  • Blue Puppy as Blue Puppy
  • Always with Me... as Tanya Ilyina
  • The Princess and the Pea as Queen Mother
  • Office Romance as Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina
  • Old-Fashioned Comedy as Lydia Vasilievna Zherber
  • Stalker as Stalker's wife
  • D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers as Anne of Austria Queen
  • Sergey Ivanovich Retires as Natasha
  • Three Years as Polina Rassudina
  • Dangerous Age | Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva
  • Two Voices as Yekaterina
  • Agony as Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova
  • A Canary Cage as Olesya's mother
  • A Cruel Romance as Harita Ignatievna Ogudalova
  • Success as Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva
  • A Simple Death as Praskovya Fedorovna
  • Forgive Me as Elizaveta Andreyevna
  • The Secret of the Snow Queen as Snow Queen
  • Chekharda as Margarita Vasilievna Kudryavtseva, accompanist and second conductor
  • Weekdays and Holidays of Serafima Glukina as Serafima Glukina
  • Musketeers Twenty Years After as Queen Anne of Austria
  • The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After as Queen Anne of Austria
  • Katya Ismailova as Irina Dmitrievna
  • Women's Logic as Olga Petrovna Tumanova
  • On Upper Maslovka Street as Anna Borisovna
  • A Room and a Half as Brodsky's mother
  • The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin as Queen Anne of Austria
  • Bolshoi as Galina Beletskaya
  • Thawed Carp as Lyudmila Borisovna
  • Parents of the Strict Regime as mother

    Honors and awards

Honorary titles:
State awards and incentives:
  • RSFSR State Prize of Stanislavsky for the performance of roles Shchegoleva, Kovaleva, Kid plays in "The Man from", "Kovalev of the province," IH Butler, "The Kid and Carlson," by Astrid Lindgren
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1995 for the outstanding performance of roles of the classical repertoire
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 2000 for the performance of the Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theatre Tovstonogov "Arcadia" play by Tom Stoppard
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation for year 2007 for creating artistic images that have become classics of domestic theatrical art and film
  • Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation for a great contribution to the development of domestic theater and cinema art.
Orders:
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Order of Friendship for services to the people associated with the development of Russian statehood, the achievements in labour, science, culture, arts, strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland":
  • 4th class for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art.
  • 3rd class for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of fruitful activity.
  • 2nd class for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic culture and arts and many years of fruitful activity.
  • Order of Honour
Other awards, prizes, promotions and public recognition:
  • Nika Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg
  • Nika Award for Best Actress
  • "Golden Mask" Award for best dramatic actress
  • 2018: Golden Eagle Award, Best Supporting Actress in ''Thawed Carp''