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Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Ranevskaya
  • Name: Faina Ranevskaya
  • Birthday: 1896-08-27
  • Also known as: Faina Grigoryevna Feldman,F.G. Ranevskaya,F. Ranevskaya,Faina Georgijewna Ranewskaja,Фаина Георгиевна Раневская
  • Place of birth: Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]
  • Popularity: 0.4196
Biography: 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... Read More

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Title Release date
Old Masters   as  Self 1983-06-01
The Rest Is Silence   as  Lucy Cooper 1978-12-23
Karlson Returns   as  Freken Bok (voice) 1970-06-06
New Attraction Today   as  Ada Konstantinovna 1966-03-07
An Easy Life   as  Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot 1964-08-24
Be Careful, Grandma!   as  Elena Timofeevna 1961-03-07
Drama   as  Murashkina 1960-01-01
A Girl with Guitar   as  Sviristinskaya 1958-09-01
They Have a Motherland 1949-04-29
Meeting on the Elbe   as  Mrs. MacDermott 1949-03-16
Spring   as  Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper 1947-07-02
Cinderella   as  Stepmother 1947-05-16
Private Aleksandr Matrosov 1947-05-12
The Sky Slow-Mover   as  military doctor, professor of medicine 1946-12-20
An Elephant and a Rope   as  Grandmother 1945-12-21
Wedding   as  Настасья Тимофеевна Жигалова (мать невесты) 1944-06-15
The New Adventures of Schweik 1943-11-22
Dream   as  Madame Rosa Skorokhodova 1943-09-13
Native Shores 1943-07-05
The Tale of Tsar Saltan   as  Babarikha (voice) 1943-01-23
Aleksandr Parkhomenko   as  female pianist (uncredited) 1942-07-20
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich   as  Горпина 1941-08-01
The Beloved   as  Marya Ivanovna 1940-08-20
The Foundling   as  Lyalya (as F.G. Ranevskaya) 1939-11-18
Engineer Kochin's Error 1939-10-05
Man in a Shell   as  жена инспектора 1939-05-25
The Ballad of Cossack Golota 1937-10-18
Boule de Suif   as  Mme. Loiseau 1934-09-15