Alisa Freyndlikh

Known for ActingBorn 1934-12-08 (age 91)Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

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.Read more

Movies & web series

BDT Digital: Excitement

On Upper Maslovka Street

Alisa: Excitement

Yesterday, Today and Always

Memorial Train

Voices

The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini

Stalker

Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends

Always With Me

Anna and Commander

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

Office Romance

Two Voices

The City Turns the Lights On

First Visitor

Ruthless Romance

Talents and Admirers

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

To Remember

12 Chairs

Sergey Ivanovich Retires

Separated

The Executive

Fro

The Straw Hat

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Striped Trip

The Story about Newlyweds

A Room and a Half

Thawed Carp

The Bolshoi

Melodies of the Vera Quarter

The Secret of the Iron Door

Strict Regime Parents

Martha's Line

Adventures of a Dentist

To Love

Вальс

Blue Puppy

A Dangerous Age

Forgive Me

A Canary Cage

Success

Family Happiness

Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God

Musketeers 20 Years Later

The Princess and the Pea