
Alisa Freyndlikh
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1934-12-08 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Alisa Freyndlikh
Biography
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
Acting
(2022)
Strict Regime Parents
as мать
(2020)
Alisa: Excitement
as Self
(2020)
(2019)
(2017)
Thawed Carp
as Людмила Борисовна (соседка Елены)
(2016)
The Bolshoi
as Beletskaya
(2014)
Martha's Line
as Марья Петрова
(2014)
Voices
as herself
(2009)
(2009)
The Music of Life
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
A Room and a Half
as Mother
(2006)
(2005)
On Upper Maslovka Street
as Анна Борисовна
(2005)
(1994)
Katya Ismailova
as Irina Dmitrievna
(1993)
(1993)
(1989)
(1988)
Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends
as Serafima Glukina
(1986)
The Secret of the Snow Queen
as Snow Queen
(1986)
(1985)
A Simple Death
as Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina
(1984)
A Cruel Romance
as Ogudalova
(1984)
Success
as Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva
(1984)
(1983)
A Canary Cage
as Olesya's Mother
(1982)
(1982)
(1981)
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Vyrubova
(1981)
A Dangerous Age
as Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva
(1981)
(1980)
An Old-Fashioned Comedy
as Lidiya Vasilyevna
(1980)
(1980)
(1979)
Stalker
as Stalker's Wife
(1979)
Alisa Freyndlikh
as Self
(1977)
Office Romance
as Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина
(1976)
The Princess and the Pea
as Queen
(1976)
Blue Puppy
as Blue Puppy (voice)
(1976)
(1975)
Anna and Commander
as Anna
(1975)
(1975)
(1974)
The Straw Hat
as баронесса де Шампиньи
(1974)
(1973)
(1972)
(1970)
The Secret of the Iron Door
as Mother
(1970)
(1970)
(1969)
(1969)
(1968)
To Love
as Anya, tram conductor
(1967)
(1966)
12 Chairs
as Эллочка-Людоедочка
(1966)
First Visitor
as Tanya
(1964)
(1961)
Striped Trip
as Pomoshnitsa Shuleykina v bufete tsyrka
(1959)
(1958)
The City Turns the Lights On
as Pichikova
(1957)
(1956)