Vera Kholodnaya
Born: 1893-08-05 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Died: 1919-02-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya (née Levchenko) was a Ukrainian-born actress of the silent film era. She was the first star of Imperial Russian cinema. Only eight of her films have survived, in part or in whole, and the total number she acted in is unknown, with speculation ranging from 50 to 100.
Filmography
1993
- Island of the Dead as Self (archive footage)
1979
- Cinema in Russia as Film footage
1919
- The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaya as Self (archive footage)
1918
- The Woman Who Invented Love as Antonella
- Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent as Paula, Lorio's partner
- A Corpse Living as Masha, gypsy woman
- The Last Tango as Chloe
1917
- Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ... as Mara Zet
- By the Fireplace as Lidiya Lanina
- The Beast in Man as Séverine
- At The Beauty's Altar as Polya, forester's daughter
- Tortured Souls as Countess Rutskaya
- How They Lie as Ganka, the dancer
- Metropolitan Poison as Vera Darovskaya
1916
- A Life for a Life as Nata Khromova
- The Moon Beauty as Anya, Stroev's daughter
- Mirages as Marianna
1915
- Children of the Age as Mariya Nikolayevna
- Song of Triumphant Love as Elena
- Cinema — for the Soldier as Self
- Vanyushin's Children
1914
- Anna Karenina as Italian wet-nurse (uncredited)