Galina Vodyanitskaya
Aug 26, 1918 - Jun 13, 2007 (88 years old) in Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Soviet actress of theatre and cinema, laureate of the Stalin Prize I degree (1946). She was the daughter of famous biologists Vladimir Alekseevich Vodyanitsky and Nina Vasilievna Morozova-Vodyanitskaya. In 1936-1939, she studied at Moscow State University (MSU). In 1944, she graduated from the acting faculty of S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (VGIK). After the success of the film Zoya (1944), where Vodianitskaya, still a student, played the role of Komsomol girl, Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, she became part of the first Soviet delegation in the First Cannes Film Festival.
Known For
Zoya
Zoya Kosmodem'yanskaya
Steep Slides
Anna
