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 (1932 film)|The House of the Dead] as female student
- The Unforgettable [Year 1919 (film)|The Unforgettable Year 1919] as Olga Butkevich
- Goodbye, Boys as Nadezhda Belova, Volodya's mother
- War and Peace as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
- Day by Day as Sokolova
- The Flight of Mr. McKinley as Mrs. Ann Shamway
- They Fought for Their Country as old cossack woman
- Twenty [Days Without War] as Zinaida Antonovna
- A Declaration of Love as Zinochka in old age