Angelina Stepanova


Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher. She was winner of the Stalin Prize of I class and USSR State Prize . People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography

Stepanova was born on 23 November 1905 in Nikolayevsk in the family of an insurance agent and a dentist. Studying in a Moscow gymnasium, she was fond of ballet. Since 1921 she studied at the theater school at the Vakhtangov Theatre, which she graduated in 1924, from the same year she worked at the Moscow Art Theatre. She later became a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Stepanova started her film career in 1932.

Death

She died on 17 May 2000 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Selected filmography

The House of the Dead as female studentThe Unforgettable Year 1919 as Olga ButkevichGoodbye, Boys as Nadezhda Belova, Volodya's motherWar and Peace as Anna Pavlovna SchererDay by Day as SokolovaThe Flight of Mr. McKinley as Mrs. Ann ShamwayThey Fought for Their Country as old cossack womanTwenty Days Without War as Zinaida AntonovnaA Declaration of Love as Zinochka in old age