Cast & creator

Elza Radziņa

1917-02-10 (died at 88) Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]IMDb

Best known for Theatre, How the Steel Was Tempered, Death Under Sail

Elza Radziņa (February 10, 1917; Kharkiv, Russian Empire – August 18, 2005; Riga, Latvia) was a 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.

Also known as: Elza Radzina, Эльза Радзиня, Elza Radziņa, Радзиня Эльза Яновна, Elza Šalkone-Radziņa

Movies

film credits

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television credits

Career

1949–2001 · acting roles

Credit score

6.1

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 5.5

Theatre

Dolly de Vries · 1979

How the Steel Was Tempered

Acting · 1973

★ 5.7

Death Under Sail

Acting · 1976

★ 4.0

The Photo of a Woman with a Boar

Paula · 1987

★ 5.2

The Swamp Wader

Horsta madāma · 1966

Across film & television