Elza Radziņa
Actor
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
King Lear
as Goneril 1970
The Last Relic
as Abtiss 1970
Secret of the Blackbirds
as miss Effie Ramsbottom 1983
Theatre
as Dolly 1978
The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
as Paula 1987
Favorite
as Aunty Debb Penn 1976
Death Under Sail
1976
Littlefinger
as Lady-in-Waiting 1987
Devil's Servants
as Getruda 1970
Inspector Goole
as Сибил Берлинг 1979
Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
1972
How the Steel Was Tempered
as редактор газеты Ирина Александровна 1973
The Times of the Surveyors
as Oļiņiete 1968
The Republic of Varnu Street
1970
The Swamp Wader
as Horsta madāma 1966
Blow, Wind!
as Mother 1973