Galina Vodyanitskaya

Galina Vodyanitskaya

Known for
Acting
Born
August 26, 1918
Place of birth
Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Died
June 13, 2007

Biography

Soviet actress of theatre and cinema, laureate of the Stalin Prize I degree (1946). She was the daughter of famous biologists Vladimir Alekseevich Vodyanitsky and Nina Vasilievna Morozova-Vodyanitskaya. In 1936-1939, she studied at Moscow State University (MSU). In 1944, she graduated from the acting faculty of S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (VGIK). After the success of the film Zoya (1944), where Vodianitskaya, still a student, played the role of Komsomol girl, Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, she became part of the first Soviet delegation in the First Cannes Film Festival.

Movies with Galina Vodyanitskaya

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