Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
36
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-02-10
Day of Death
2005-08-18 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Also Known As
Elza Radzina
Эльза Радзиня
Elza Radziņa
Радзиня Эльза Яновна
Elza Šalkone-Radziņa
Elza Radziņa
Biography
Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a Soviet 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.
