Biography
Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya (Russian: Ве́ра Влади́мировна Алта́йская) (21 May 1919 – 28 December 1978) was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.
Born in Petrograd, she was the adoptive daughter of Konstantin Altaysky-Korolyov, a poet and translator, and his wife Vera Petrovna, a pianist. In the late 1930s she moved to Moscow, where in 1940 she graduated from drama school at the Mosfilm studio and joined the studio's repertoire of actors. Her first prominent role was in Yuli Raizman's 1942 film Mashenka.
She married Aleksei Konsovsky, a fellow actor, with whom she had a daughter, Svetlana. In recognition of her film work during the 1940s she received the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
In Mashenka, Altayskaya had played a young beauty, but she later transitioned to character roles. For most of her career, she was typecast as shrewish or matronly characters. She appeared in many children's fairy-tale films, most notably Aleksandr Rou's 1964 film Jack Frost, in which she played a domineering stepmother. She died in Moscow after a brief illness, and her ashes are interred in the columbarium of Vagankovo Cemetery alongside those of her adoptive parents.
Filmography
all 38
Movies 37
TV Shows 1
Voice 1
A Collar for Marquis (1977)
The Beginning of the Legend (1977)
Looking for My Fate (1975)
В стране ловушек (1975)
Birds Over the City (1974)
Golden Horns (1973)
Boys (1972)
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Главный свидетель (1969)
Men's Talk (1969)
Adolescence (1968)
Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes (1968)
The Grey Illness (1966)
Заблудший (1966)
Father Frost (1964)
The Man Who Doubts (1963)
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1961)
The House with the Mezzanine (1961)
Yevdokiya (1961)
A Snow Fairy Tale (1960)
Bread and Roses (1960)
В нашем городе (1959)
Maria, the Wonderful Weaver (1959)
Our Correspondent (1959)
По ту сторону (1958)
A Groom from the Right Society (1958)
Poet (1957)
Land and People (1956)
The Secret of Beauty (1955)
Liberated Earth (1946)
It Happened in the Donbass (1945)
Once Upon a Girl (1944)
The Ural Front (1944)
Mashenka (1942)
Son of Tajikistan (1942)
Novelly (1941)
Seaman's daughter (1941)
The Shining Path (1940)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1919-05-21
Deathday1978-12-28 (59 years old)
Birth PlaceSaint Petersburg, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
Also Known AsВера Алтайская, Wera Altaiskaja
AwardsMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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