Alisa Freindlich

Alisa Freindlich
Alisa Brunovna Freindlich or Freindlih (born 8 December 1934) is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Biography
Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the USSR. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During World War II she survived the 900-day-long Nazi siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war.
In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993).
On her 70th birthday, she was visited by Vladimir Putin in her Saint Petersburg apartment, who awarded her with the State Prize of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.
As of 2019, Freindlich was performing in nine productions of the Bolshoi Drama in Saint Petersburg, where she is a leading actress.
Selected filmography
Unfinished Story (1955) as episode
Talents and Admirers (1956) as episode
Immortal Song (1957) as gymnasium student
The City Turns the Lights On (1958) as Zina Pichikova
The Story Of Newlyweds (1960) as Galya
Striped Trip (1961) as barmaid
Fro (1964) as Natasha Bukova
The First Visitor (1965) as Tanya
Adventures of a Dentist (1965) as Masha
The City and the Song (1968) as singer
To Love (1968) as Anya
The Waltz (1969, TV Movie) as Marusya
Yesterday, Today and Forever (1969) as defendant's wife
Family Happiness (1970) as Anna Semyonovna Kapitonova
The Secret of the Iron Door (1970) as Lyusa Ryzhkova, Tolik's mother
My Life (1973) as Kleopatra Polozneva
Acting As (1973) as Yevgenia Sinegrach
Melodies of Vera Quarter (1973) as Alisa Akvamarinskaya
The Taming of the Shrew (1973, TV Movie) as Katherina
Anna and Commodore (1974) as Anna
The Straw Hat (1974, TV Mini-Series) as Baroness de Champigny
Blue Puppy (1976, Cartoon) as Blue Puppy (singing voice)
Always with Me... (1976) as Tanya Ilyina
The Princess and the Pea (1977) as Queen Mother
Office Romance (1977) as Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina
Old-Fashioned Comedy (1978) as Lydia Vasilievna Zherber
Stalker (1979) as Stalker's wife
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1979, TV Mini-Series) as Anne of Austria Queen
Sergey Ivanovich Retires (1980) as Natasha
Three Years (1980) as Polina Rassudina
Dangerous Age (1981) | Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva
Two Voices (1981) as Yekaterina
Agony (1981) as Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova
A Canary Cage (1983) as Olesya's mother
A Cruel Romance (1984) as Harita Ignatievna Ogudalova
Success (1985) as Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva
A Simple Death (1985) as Praskovya Fedorovna
Forgive Me (1986) as Elizaveta Andreyevna
The Secret of the Snow Queen (1986) as Snow Queen
Chekharda (1987) as Margarita Vasilievna Kudryavtseva, accompanist and second conductor
Weekdays and Holidays of Serafima Glukina (1988) as Serafima Glukina
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992, TV Mini-Series) as Queen Anne of Austria
The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1994) as Queen Anne of Austria
Katya Ismailova (1994) as Irina / mother
Katya Ismailova (1994) as Irina Dmitrievna
Women's Logic (2003-2006) as Olga Petrovna Tumanova
On Upper Maslovka Street (2005) as Anna Borisovna
A Room and a Half (2009) as Brodsky's mother
The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009) as Queen Anne of Austria
Bolshoi (2017) as Galina Beletskaya
Thawed Carp (2017) as Lyudmila Borisovna
Parents of the Strict Regime (2022) as mother
Honors and awards
Honorary titles:
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1971)
People's Artist of the USSR (1981)
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
State awards and incentives:
RSFSR State Prize of Stanislavsky (1976) for the performance of roles Shchegoleva, Kovaleva, Kid plays in "The Man from", "Kovalev of the province," IH Butler, "The Kid and Carlson," by Astrid Lindgren
State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1995 (27 May 1996) for the outstanding performance of roles of the classical repertoire
State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 2000 (6 June 2001) for the performance of the Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theatre Tovstonogov "Arcadia" play by Tom Stoppard
State Prize of the Russian Federation for year 2007 (19 May 2008) for creating artistic images that have become classics of domestic theatrical art and film
Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation (8 December 2010) for a great contribution to the development of domestic theater and cinema art.
Orders:
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1986)
Order of Friendship (17 December 1994) for services to the people associated with the development of Russian statehood, the achievements in labour, science, culture, arts, strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland":
4th class (13 February 2004) for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art.
3rd class (5 February 2009) for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of fruitful activity.
2nd class (28 October 2019) for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic culture and arts and many years of fruitful activity.
Order of Honour (25 September 2014)
Other awards, prizes, promotions and public recognition:
Nika Award for Best Supporting Actress (movie "Moscow Nights", dir. Valeri Todorovski; 1994)
Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2001)
Nika Award for Best Actress (movie "In the Upper Maslovka", dir. Konstantin Khudyakov; 2005)
"Golden Mask" Award for best dramatic actress ("Oscar and the Pink Lady", Lensovet Theatre; 2006)
References
External links
Unofficial Fan Club of Alisa Freindlich
Alisa Freindlich at Peoples.ru
Eldar Ryazanov about Alisa Freindlich and making of Office Romance
1934 births
Living people
20th-century Russian actresses
21st-century Russian actresses
Actresses from Saint Petersburg
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
Russian people of German descent
Russian film actresses
Soviet film actresses
Russian stage actresses
Russian voice actresses
Soviet stage actresses
Soviet voice actresses
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the USSR
Recipients of the Nika Award
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
Russian activists against the Russian invasion of Ukraine