Faina Ranevskaya
Acting
Born: 1896-08-27 · Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]
Died: 1984-07-19
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
🎬 Movies (28)
Old Masters
1983
Self
The Rest Is Silence
1978
Lucy Cooper
Karlson Returns
1970
Freken Bok (voice)
New Attraction Today
1966
Ada Konstantinovna
An Easy Life
1964
Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot
Be Careful, Grandma!
1961
Elena Timofeevna
Drama
1960
Murashkina
A Girl with Guitar
1958
Sviristinskaya
Meeting on the Elbe
1949
Mrs. MacDermott
They Have a Motherland
1949
Cinderella
1947
Stepmother
Spring
1947
Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
1947
The Sky Slow-Mover
1946
military doctor, professor of medicine
An Elephant and a Rope
1945
Grandmother
Wedding
1944
Настасья Тимофеевна Жигалова (мать невесты)
Dream
1943
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
The New Adventures of Schweik
1943
Native Shores
1943
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1943
Babarikha (voice)
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
1942
female pianist (uncredited)
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
1941
Горпина
The Beloved
1940
Marya Ivanovna
Engineer Kochin's Error
1939
The Foundling
1939
Lyalya (as F.G. Ranevskaya)
Man in a Shell
1939
жена инспектора
The Ballad of Cossack Golota
1937
Boule de Suif
1934
Mme. Loiseau
