Elizaveta Uvarova is a famous film and theater actress. People's and Honored Artist of the RSFSR was awarded the Order of Honor. She taught at the Theater Institute of Leningrad, was a theater director. She starred in 30 films and played in more than 40 performances.
Even the birth of the famous actress is legendary. According to one of them, a well-known future performer was born in a Siberian remote village in 1900. Ten-year-old Lisa Herzberg was transferred to St. Petersburg by his father. An illiterate child was so shocked by the greatness of a huge city that the baby was ill for a long time from impressions. However, documentary evidence for this legend does not exist.
Path Selection Time
The biography of Elizabeth Alexandrovna began in St. Petersburg on November 10 (23). A famous artist was born in 1902. There is no information about childhood. There is information that during the Civil War, Lisa Uvarova was a sister of mercy, took part in hostilities. After the demobilization, the future performer chose the education of a philologist and a physician.
After the start of training, it was decided to visit the theater-studio at the Vaudeville People’s House. The circle was led by Alexander Kugel. This was a famous journalist and theater critic. Then Uvarova began classes in the studio of Vladimir Karpov. Theatrical debut took place in 1922. After graduating from the studio, Uvarova was offered the role of Lisa in the production of “Eternal Husband”.
The beginning lyceum was played at the Petrograd Theater at the People’s House. The plot takes place around two men. They constantly start romance novels, he is unmarried, prefers an idle life. The second can not do anything without the instructions of the spouse. Together with his wife, he lives in a provincial town.
In 1922, at the invitation of the famous director Bryantsev, Uvarov came to the Leningrad Youth Theater. As part of his troupe, the actress played for two decades. She quickly turned into a favorite of the audience. This team has fully revealed the unique talent of the performer.
Vocation work
She was left with diverse and poignant images. Uvarova's fame brought the role of travesty. She was Cinderella, Chanterelle, and even the Evil Sorceress. Specially for the actress, the playwright Schwartz in the play "Underwood" created the role of Varvarka.
Since 1945, Elizaveta Alexandrovna began work at the Leningrad Comedy Theater. In the most popular collective of the city, she became part of the Akimov troupe, becoming one of her leading actresses. Among the created images, Margit can be noted in the production of “We Are Not Angels, ” Amanda from “Carts with Apples”. More than forty roles were played on the stage.
The film career began in 1938. Elizaveta Alexandrovna participated in the filming of the film "Man with a Gun" with Yutkevich. The picture shows revolutionary events. When the main character was searching for boiling water in Smolny, he had a chance meeting with Lenin. Uvarova got the role of engraftment.
The following year, the actress played the mother of Duska in the movie "Member of the Government." In the fifties, the artist successfully performed small roles. She was most often offered images of nurses, cleaners, and neighbors.
Film career
Notable work went to the actress in 1964. She received in the film "Through the Cemetery" the main role of Sofia Kazimirovna in the director Turov. The film tells about the preparation by the partisans of an action against the invaders. They make explosives when enemy soldiers suddenly appear.
Immediately in four paintings, the artist participated in 1966. In the film "Do not forget … Lugovaya Station", she brilliantly embodied the image of Olga Vladimirovna, the wife of an old musician. And in the project “I come from childhood” I was a teacher of the German language, who taught the boys who were waiting for the end of the war and the return of their fathers home.
In the film "Boy and Girl" she got a small role as a nurse of the hospital, in "The Devil with a Briefcase" she was Pavlovna. All the heroines of Uvarova are united by their external insecurity, but tangible willpower and independence.
Among the images created by Elizabeth Alexandrovna there are also works in children's films. Especially often in such projects, the actress starred in recent years. In 1969, in Merry Magic, she was Kikimora. In the story, the main character Katya manages to find weed that can spell Vasilisa the Beautiful. Together with the library cleaner Akulina Ivanovna, the girl goes on a fabulous journey.
