Name
Elza Radziņa
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-02-10
Deathday
2005-08-18 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Biography
Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a 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
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A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt o...
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Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has be...
- 1970 King Lear as Goneril
- 1970 The Last Relic as Abtiss
- 1964 Hamlet as Gertrude
- 1976 Favorite as Aunty Debb Penn
- 1979 Agent of the Secret Service as Nyaga
- 1976 Attack On The Secret Police as madame Leigne
- 1966 The Swamp Wader as Horsta madāma
- 1978 Family Album as Irma
- 1991 Maija and Paija as Laima
- 1978 Theatre as Dolly de Vries
- 1973 Blow, Wind! as Mother
- 1979 Inspector Goole as Сибил Берлинг
- 1983 Secret of the Blackbirds as miss Effie Ramsbottom
- 1949 Rainis as Dora
- 1973 How the Steel Was Tempered as редактор газеты Ирина Александровна
- 1981 Sergey Ivanovich Retires
- 1970 Devil's Servants as Getruda
- 1993 The Courage to Kill
- 1987 Littlefinger as Lady-in-Waiting
- 1982 Rain Blues
- 1987 The Photo of a Woman with a Boar as Paula
- 1972 Tauriņdeja as Annas kundze
- 1968 The Times of the Surveyors as Oļiņiete
- 1970 Klavs - The Son of Martin as Ance
- 2001 Hide-and-seek as Timmere
- 1972 Devil's Servants on a Devil's Mill
- 1970 The Republic of Varnu Street
- 1974 Olegs and Aina
- 1976 Death Under Sail
- 1978 Behind Glass Door
- 1974 Maritime Climates
- 1986 We Accuse
- 1975 Defying Fate
- 1984 The Last Visit
- 1979 Theatre ( 2 episodes ) as Dolly de Vries
- 1977 Death Under Sail ( 2 episodes ) as Mrs. Tufts
