Stefaniya Stanyuta

Stefanija Michajłaŭna Staniuta was a Belarus–Soviet theater and movie actress. She was awarded as the 1988 People's Artist of the USSR.
Stefanija was born on April 30, 1905, in Minsk in the family of the famous Belarusian artist Michaś Staniuta. As a child, she happened to attend the official meeting of Tsar Nicholas II with the Belarusian people.
She studied at the parish school, then at the Minsk Women's Government Gymnasium. In 1926 she graduated from the Belarusan Drama Studio under the Moscow Art Theater.
Since 1932 and until the end of her life Stefanija Staniuta worked at the Janka Kupala National Academic Theatre in Minsk. In total she played about 200 roles, including in movies from 1958 onward.

Selected filmography

1958 – Red Leaves as episode
1964 – Letters to the Living as episode
1966 – I'm Going to Look For as episode
1969 – I, Francysk Skaryna as Abbess
1974 – Adventures in a City that does not Exist as Aunt Polly
1976 – The Troubled Month of Veresen as Serafima
1977 – About the Little Red Riding Hood as 1st evil old woman
1983 – Farewell as Darja
1983 – White Dew as Kisialikha
1985 – Mama, I'm Alive as Domna Fialipaŭna, a teacher in a partisan detachment
1985 – Do Not Marry, Girls as Granny
1991 – Tsar Ivan the Terrible as Anufrievna
1995 – The Game of Imagination as Granny in a hat
2001 – Holiday Romance as episode