Faina Ranevskaya
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (born Faina Girschevna Feldman, on August 27th, 1896 in Taganrog), was a Soviet theatre and film actress. She is also very well known for her cheeky aphorisms. In childhood, she attended the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls, receiving additional education usual for someone from an affluent family (music, singing, foreign languages). Heavily influenced by her mother's love for the arts, Ranevskaya had a budding interest in theatre and by the age of 14 was attending c...
Known For
Filmography
Legends of Cinema
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Old Masters
1983
as Self
The Rest Is Silence
1978
as Lucy Cooper
Karlson Returns
1970
as Freken Bok (voice)
Junior and Karlson
1968
as Фрекен Бок
New Attraction Today
1966
as Ada Konstantinovna
An Easy Life
1964
as Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot
Fuse
1962
Be Careful, Grandma!
1961
as Elena Timofeevna
Drama
1960
as Murashkina
A Girl with Guitar
1958
as Sviristinskaya
Meeting on the Elbe
1949
as Mrs. MacDermott
They Have a Motherland
1949
Cinderella
1947
as Stepmother
Spring
1947
as Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
1947
The Sky Slow-Mover
1946
as military doctor, professor of medicine
An Elephant and a Rope
1945
as Grandmother
Wedding
1944
as Настасья Тимофеевна Жигалова (мать невесты)
Dream
1943
as Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
The New Adventures of Schweik
1943
Native Shores
1943
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1943
as Babarikha (voice)
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
1942
as female pianist (uncredited)
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
1941
as Горпина
The Beloved
1940
as Marya Ivanovna
Engineer Kochin's Error
1939
The Foundling
1939
as Lyalya (as F.G. Ranevskaya)
Man in a Shell
1939
as жена инспектора
The Ballad of Cossack Golota
1937
Boule de Suif
1934
as Mme. Loiseau