Vera Kholodnaya
Acting
22
Acting Credits
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.
Known For
Island of the Dead
Self (archive footage)
The Woman Who Invented Love
Antonella
Anna Karenina
Italian wet-nurse (uncredited)
A Life for a Life
Nata Khromova
Song of Triumphant Love
Elena
Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ...
Mara Zet
The Moon Beauty
Anya, Stroev's daughter
By the Fireplace
Lidiya Lanina
Filmography
Island of the Dead
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
1979
as Film footage
The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaya
1919
as Self (archive footage)
Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent
1918
as Paula, Lorio's partner
A Corpse Living
1918
as Masha, gypsy woman
The Woman Who Invented Love
1918
as Antonella
The Last Tango
1918
as Chloe
Tortured Souls
1917
as Countess Rutskaya
How They Lie
1917
as Ganka, the dancer
The Beast in Man
1917
as Séverine
Metropolitan Poison
1917
as Vera Darovskaya
At The Beauty's Altar
1917
as Polya, forester's daughter
By the Fireplace
1917
as Lidiya Lanina
Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ...
1917
as Mara Zet
Mirages
1916
as Marianna
A Life for a Life
1916
as Nata Khromova
The Moon Beauty
1916
as Anya, Stroev's daughter
Vanyushin's Children
1915
Children of the Age
1915
as Mariya Nikolayevna
Song of Triumphant Love
1915
as Elena
Cinema — for the Soldier
1915
as Self
Anna Karenina
1914
as Italian wet-nurse (uncredited)