Alisa Freyndlikh
Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union.
Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union. 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 the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war.
In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky 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 BDT in which she works to this day.
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 Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993).
On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.
Known for
Stalker
Stalker's Wife
To Remember
Narrator
Musketeers 20 Years Later
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Queen Anne of Austria
A Simple Death
Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina
12 Chairs
Эллочка-Людоедочка
Office Romance
Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина
The Bolshoi
Beletskaya
Striped Trip
Pomoshnitsa Shuleykina v bufete tsyrka
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Vyrubova
A Cruel Romance
Ogudalova
Success
Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva
Katya Ismailova
Irina Dmitrievna
Talents and Admirers
The Story about Newlyweds
Galya
The Princess and the Pea
Queen
Three Years
Polina Razsudin
The Straw Hat
баронесса де Шампиньи
My Life
Yesterday, Today and Always
жена подсудимого
The Music of Life
Self (archive footage)
Thawed Carp
Людмила Борисовна (соседка Елены)
The Secret of the Snow Queen
Snow Queen
The Straw Hat
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
Queen Anne of Austria
BDT Digital: Excitement
To Love
Anya, tram conductor
Two Voices
The Secret of the Iron Door
Mother
Always With Me
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Melodies of the Vera Quarter
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Adventures of a Dentist
Forgive Me
The Executive
Blue Puppy
Blue Puppy (voice)
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
An Old-Fashioned Comedy
Lidiya Vasilyevna
A Dangerous Age
Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva
The City Turns the Lights On
Pichikova
Musketeers Twenty Years Later
Queen Anna of Austria
Memorial Train
Fro
Quartet
First Visitor
Tanya
Immortal Song
Fifth Decade
Alisa Freyndlikh
Self
Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
Self
Вальс
Alisa: Excitement
Self
Anna and Commander
Anna
Voices
herself
Great Cold
Thanks for Non-flying Weather
A Canary Cage
Olesya's Mother
Family Happiness
Separated
Kovalyova From the Provinces
Ковалёва
The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Queen Anna
Martha's Line
Марья Петрова
A Room and a Half
Mother
Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon
Extraordinary Sunday
Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends
Serafima Glukina
City and Song
Strict Regime Parents
мать
On Upper Maslovka Street
Анна Борисовна
The Taming of the Shrew
Вместе с Дунаевским
To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love...
Self