Alisa Freyndlikh

Alisa Brunovna Freindlich Russian ????? ???????? ????????? born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad Soviet Union is a Soviet and Russian actress Peoples Artist of the Soviet Union Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich a prominent actor and Peoples 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 900daylong 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 theatres 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 Ryazanovs enormously popular comedy Office Romance 1977 the longbanned epic Agony 1975 and Tarkovskys scifi movie Stalker 1979 Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series DArtagnan and Three Musketeers 1978 and its later Russian sequels Musketeers Twenty Years Later 1992 and Queen Annes Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later 1993 On her 70th birthday Freindlichs 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