Elza Radziņa
Born: 1917-02-10 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Died: 2005-08-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet Latvian theater and cinema actress, master of the spoken word (reader). She received award of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of the Three Stars in 1995. She studied in Jelgava theater studio in 1942. After the World War II worked in Jelgava Drama theater (1945-1953). For a brief moment she worked in Valmiera Drama theater, but from 1954 worked in Latvian National Theater, where she became one of the leading actresses. In 1949 she made her debut in biographical drama film "Rainis" from Riga Film Studio.
Filmography
2001
- Hide-and-seek as Timmere
1993
1991
- Maija and Paija as Laima
1987
- Littlefinger as Lady-in-Waiting
- The Photo of a Woman with a Boar as Paula
1986
1984
1983
- Secret of the Blackbirds as miss Effie Ramsbottom
1982
1979
- Agent of the Secret Service as Nyaga
- Inspector Goole as Сибил Берлинг
- Theatre as Dolli de Friz
1978
- Behind Glass Door
- Theatre as Dolly
- Family Album as Irma
1977
- Смерть под парусом as Mrs. Tufts
1976
- Favorite as Aunty Debb Penn
- Death Under Sail
- Attack On The Secret Police as madame Leigne
1975
1973
- How the Steel Was Tempered as редактор газеты Ирина Александровна
- Blow, Wind! as Mother
1972
- Tauriņdeja as Annas kundze
- Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
1970
- The Last Relic as Abtiss
- King Lear as Goneril
- Devil's Servants as Getruda
- Klavs - The Son of Martin as Ance
- The Republic of Varnu Street
1968
- The Times of the Surveyors as Oļiņiete
1966
- The Swamp Wader as Horsta madāma
1964
- Hamlet as Gertrude
1949
- Rainis as Dora