Lyudmila Makarova

Lyudmila Makarova

Actress
Born
October 20, 1921
Died
May 30, 2014
Awards
2 wins, 2 nominations

Lyudmila Iosifovna Makarova was born on October 20, 1921, in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd), Russia. Young Makarova was fond of ballet and theatre. In 1937 she was admitted to the Acting Studio of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad. She studied acting under Boris Babochkin and graduated from…

Biography

Lyudmila Iosifovna Makarova was born on October 20, 1921, in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd), Russia. Young Makarova was fond of ballet and theatre. In 1937 she was admitted to the Acting Studio of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Leningrad. She studied acting under Boris Babochkin and graduated from the Acting Studio of BDT in 1941. Makarova married actor Yefim Kopelyan the same year. During the Second World War Makarova worked at the Theatre of the Baltic Navy Fleet. She was entertaining the Navy and Red Army troops with theatrical performances at the time when Leningrad was under the siege. She gave many performances aboard battleships and submarines. Makarova survived the siege of Leningrad and was decorated for her courage.

Since 1945 Makarova has been a leading actress at the troupe of Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Her acting talent was fully revealed under director Georgi Tovstonogov, who seriously updated the repertoire and elevated artistic culture at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Makarova worked under Tovstonogov for almost 35 years with an outstanding ensemble of actors at BDT. There her stage partners were such renown stars as Oleg Basilashvili, Tatyana Doronina, Alisa Freyndlikh, Valentina Kovel, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Sergey Yurskiy, Kirill Lavrov, Oleg Borisov, Yefim Kopelyan, Evgeniy Lebedev, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Nikolay Trofimov, Pavel Luspekayev, and many other remarkable Russian actors. Among Makarova's best remembered stage works were the role of Khanuma in the eponymous play. Khanuma ran over 300 performances on stage; it was also filmed by director Georgi Tovstonogov in 1978.

Lyudmila Makarova was awarded numerous prizes and decorations for her stage and film works. She was honored with the title of the People's Artist of the USSR in 1977. Makarova is living in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Actress

The Secret of the Snow QueenThe Secret of the Snow Queen(1987)as Atamansha
MaritsaMaritsa(1985)as Zupan's Mother
Sredi tysyachi dorog...Sredi tysyachi dorog...(1984)as Yevgeniya Belskaya-Lukova
Semyon DezhnevSemyon Dezhnev(1984)
Karambolina-KarambolettaKarambolina-Karamboletta(1983)as 'Karambolina'

Self

Chtoby pomniliChtoby pomnili(1993)as Self

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Lyudmila Makarova and Natalya Egorova in Povtornaya svadba (1976)Irina Kalinovskaya, Lyudmila Makarova, and Andrey Mironov in Povtornaya svadba (1976)Igor Kostolevskiy and Lyudmila Makarova in Povtornaya svadba (1976)Marina Dyuzheva, Igor Kostolevskiy, Mikhail Kuznetsov, and Lyudmila Makarova in Povtornaya svadba (1976)Lyudmila Makarova in Povtornaya svadba (1976)

Credit Score: Lyudmila Makarova

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#NameScoreYearWinNomKnownWinsNomsVotes
1Yuliya Vrevskaya5.0019787.60050
2Karambolina-Karamboletta3.2519836.40010
3Povtornaya svadba3.2519766.20082
4Dva voskresenya3.2519636.50069
5Sredi tysyachi dorog...3.0919845.80019
6Stepan Kolchugin3.0919575.6007
7Pravdu! Nichego, krome pravdy!2.5019696.10010
8Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey2.5019586.900186
9Honeymoon2.5019566.800131
10Dva kapitana2.5019566.900189