- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 27, 1896
- Place of Birth
- Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]
- Died
- July 19, 1984
Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (born Faina Girschevna Feldman, on August 27th, 1896 in Taganrog), was a Soviet theatre and film actress. She is also very well known for her cheeky aphorisms. In childhood, she attended the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls, receiving additional education usual for someone from an affluent family (music, singing, foreign languages). Heavily influenced by her mother's love for the arts, Ranevskaya had a budding interest in theatre and by the age of 14 was attending classes at the private theatre studio of A. Jagiello (A.N. Govberg), graduating in 1914. In 1915 she decided to move to Moscow, becoming estranged from her family due to her choice of career. During these years she met M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, V. Mayakovsky, and V. Kachalov. In the post-revolutionary years, her family left Russia and settled in Prague, but she stayed to continue pursuing theat…
Filmography
tvLegends of Cinema
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieOld Masters
1983 · Self
movieThe Rest Is Silence
1978 · Lucy Cooper
movieKarlson Returns
1970 · Freken Bok (voice)
tvJunior and Karlson
1968 · Фрекен Бок
movieNew Attraction Today
1966 · Ada Konstantinovna
movieAn Easy Life
1964 · Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot
tvFuse
1962
movieBe Careful, Grandma!
1961 · Elena Timofeevna
movieDrama
1960 · Murashkina
movieA Girl with Guitar
1958 · Sviristinskaya
movieThey Have a Motherland
1949
movieMeeting on the Elbe
1949 · Mrs. MacDermott
movieSpring
1947 · Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper
movieCinderella
1947 · Stepmother
moviePrivate Aleksandr Matrosov
1947
movieThe Sky Slow-Mover
1946 · military doctor, professor of medicine
movieAn Elephant and a Rope
1945 · Grandmother
movieWedding
1944 · Настасья Тимофеевна Жигалова (мать невесты)
movieThe New Adventures of Schweik
1943
movieDream
1943 · Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
movieNative Shores
1943
movieThe Tale of Tsar Saltan
1943 · Babarikha (voice)
movieAleksandr Parkhomenko
1942 · female pianist (uncredited)
movieHow Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
1941 · Горпина
movieThe Beloved
1940 · Marya Ivanovna
movieThe Foundling
1939 · Lyalya (as F.G. Ranevskaya)
movieEngineer Kochin's Error
1939
movieMan in a Shell
1939 · жена инспектора
movieThe Ballad of Cossack Golota
1937
movieBoule de Suif
1934 · Mme. Loiseau