Known for
Acting
Credits
33
Gender
Woman
Birthday
10 Feb 1917
Day of death
18 Aug 2005 (88)
Place of birth
Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Also known as
Elza Radzina
Эльза Радзиня
Elza Radziņa
Радзиня Эльза Яновна
Elza Radzina
Biography
Elza Radziņa (1917, Kharkiv, Russian Empire — 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.
Known for
Acting roles
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
---|---|---|
2001 | Hide-and-seek | |
1993 | The Courage to Kill | |
1990 | Maija and Paija | Laima |
1987 | The Photo of a Woman with a Boar | Paula |
1987 | Littlefinger | Lady-in-Waiting |
1983 | Secret of the Blackbirds | miss Effie Ramsbottom |
1982 | Rain Blues | |
1981 | Sergey Ivanovich Retires | |
1979 | Inspector Goole | Сибил Берлинг |
1979 | Театр | Dolli de Friz |
1979 | Agent of the Secret Service | Nyaga |
1978 | Theatre | Dolly |
1978 | Family Album | Irma |
1978 | Behind Glass Door | |
1977 | Смерть под парусом | Mrs. Tufts |
1976 | Favorit | Aunty Debb Penn |
1976 | Death Under Sail | |
1976 | Attack On The Secret Police | madame Leigne |
1974 | Olegs and Aina | |
1974 | Maritime Climates | |
1973 | How the Steel Was Tempered | редактор газеты Ирина Александровна |
1973 | Blow, Wind! | Mother |
1972 | Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill | |
1972 | Tauriņdeja | Annas kundze |
1970 | King Lear | Goneril |
1970 | The Last Relic | Abtiss |
1970 | Devil's Servants | Getruda |
1970 | The Republic of Varnu Street | |
1970 | Klavs - The Son of Martin | Ance |
1968 | The Times of the Surveyors | Oļiņiete |
1966 | The Swamp Wader | Horsta madāma |
1964 | Hamlet | Gertrude |
1949 | Rainis | Dora |