Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Born: September 8, 1919
Died: July 4, 1992
in Astrakhan, RSFSR, USSR
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya was a Russian film and stage actress, and unofficial sex symbol in the 1940s Soviet Union. She was loved by general public, but was censored under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.

She was born Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya on September 8, 1919, in Astrakhan, Russia. Her father, Vasili Tselikovsky, was an orchestra conductor, her mother was an opera singer. Young Tselikovskaya studied piano at the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow, then, from 1937 to 1941 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre, graduating in 1941 as an actress.

From 1941 to 1992 Lyudmila Tselikovskaya was a member of the troupe at Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There her stage partners were such actors as Mikhail Ulyanov, Ruben Simonov, Boris Zakhava, Mikhail Astangov, Varvara Popova, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Irina Kupchenko, Yuliya Borisova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Marianna Vertinskaya, Nina Ruslanova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Vladimir Etush, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Andrei Abrikosov, Grigori Abrikosov, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Gritsenko, Nikolai Timofeyev, Evgeni Fedorov, Aleksandr Grave, Vladimir Koval, Viktor Zozulin, Evgeniy Karelskikh, Sergey Makovetskiy, and Ruben Simonov, among others. Tselikovskaya gave memorable performances in the classic Shakespeare's plays, such as Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet', and Beatrice in 'Mnogo shuma is nichego' (aka.. Much Ado about Nothing).

At the beginning of her film career, Tselikovskaya gave a stellar performance in Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945) by director Sergei M. Eisenstein. However, Joseph Stalin canceled her nomination for Stalin's Prize, and as a consequence, Tselikovskaya did not have any official support for the rest of her career. During the Second World War Lyudmila Tselikovskaya entertained the Red Army troops at the front-lines together with her husband, actor Mikhail Zharov. However, after the war, she and Zharov were censored by the Soviet officials, and both became virtually unemployed.

In 1948 Tselikovskaya married Karo Alabyan, a prominent architect, but soon he was falsely accused of anti-Soviet activity, was fired from all government projects, became depressed, and later died of cancer. For the next 15 years, Tselikovskaya lived in a civil union with director Yuri Lyubimov, and their home in Moscow was a meeting place for such cultural figures as Boris Pasternak, Petr Kapitsa, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Fedor Abramov, Evgeniy Evtushenko, and other Russian intellectuals. At the same time, Tselikovskaya did not have new roles to play, she was ignored by official Soviet critics, and was rarely mentioned in the Soviet press. However, she was still loved by general public, and was eventually designated People's Actress of Russia. She died of cancer on July 2, 1992, in Moscow, Russia.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov

Movies for Lyudmila Tselikovskaya...

Title: To Remember
Character: archivefootage
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: TV
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Репетитор
Title: Репетитор
Character: Зинаида Сергеевна
Released: June 3, 1987
Type: Movie
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Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago
Title: Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago
Character: Madam Brykovich
Released: December 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.
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Лес
Title: Лес
Released: December 31, 1980
Type: Movie
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Однокашники
Title: Однокашники
Released: October 28, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Man with the Gun
Title: The Man with the Gun
Character: Варвара Ивановна Сибирцева
Released: October 3, 1977
Type: Movie
The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
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Ladies and Hussars
Title: Ladies and Hussars
Released: December 31, 1976
Type: Movie
The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry, at the last moment, replacing him with the lieutenant. To do this, the ladies have woven insidious intrigues. At the end of the play, the mutual rejection of the ladies and the hussar develops into sympathy and even love ...
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Он пришёл
Title: Он пришёл
Character: миссис Берлинг, его супруга
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Family is Like Family
Title: Family is Like Family
Character: Tatyana Ivanovna Korobova
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Mature couple is very serious about having New Year eve in family circle but their suddenly-grown-up children are dead serious to have it their way.
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Ivan the Terrible
Title: Ivan the Terrible
Character: Anastasia Romanovna
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ivan the Terrible is a two-part Soviet epic historical drama film written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein. A biopic of Ivan IV of Russia, it was Eisenstein's final film, commissioned by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified with Ivan. This version includes both movies.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Беатриче
Released: August 8, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Grasshopper
Title: The Grasshopper
Character: Olga Dymova
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.
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Did We Meet Somewhere Before
Title: Did We Meet Somewhere Before
Released: August 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Maximov and his wife Larisa Levkoyeva going to vacation, but in last minutes Levkoyeva were called back to theater. And Maximov goes all alone to the Crimea on the train. On the one of station he miss his train and must check the city and make a concert to reach the point of destination. But he is so popular that people just didn't let him rest like he want...
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Story of a Real Man
Title: Story of a Real Man
Character: Zinochka
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.
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Pencil on Ice
Title: Pencil on Ice
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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A Noisy Household
Title: A Noisy Household
Character: Antonina Pavlovna Kalmykova
Released: May 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
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Twins
Title: Twins
Character: Lyuba Karaseva
Released: December 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Title: Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Character: Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
Released: November 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
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Air Taxi
Title: Air Taxi
Character: Natasha
Released: August 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.
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Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry
Title: Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry
Character: Sima, his daughter
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’.
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Four Hearts
Title: Four Hearts
Character: Шура Мурашова
Released: January 5, 1941
Type: Movie
The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of mathematics, and a windy, frivolous student Shurochka. Despite the fact that the girls are so different, they are looking, of course, for one thing — love. The events take place in the summer pre-war Moscow and in the country where both sisters go: one in order to prepare for the re-examination, the other — to conduct math classes with the military from the Yuryev Camps located near the dacha village. Funny and difficult situations, intrigues, tears, joy — all this will be experienced by young girls on the way to their happiness.