Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Tselikovskaya in Tale of a True Man, 1948
Born
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya

(1919-09-08)8 September 1919
Astrakhan, Russian SFSR
Died4 July 1992(1992-07-04) (aged 72)
Moscow, Russia
OccupationActress
Years active1938–1980s
Spouse(s)Yuri Alexeev-Meskhiyev
Boris Voytekhov
Mikhail Zharov
Karo Alabyan
AwardsPeople's Artist of the RSFSR (1963)

Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya (Russian: Людмила Васильевна Целико́вская, 8 September 1919 – 4 July 1992) was a Russian actress, best remembered for her leading parts in films like Hearts of the Four (1941–1944), Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry (1941), The Aerial Cabman (1943), Ivan the Terrible (1944), Twins (1945) and The Busy Estate (1946). She was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1963. Ignored by the officialdom, Tselikovskaya was admired by the general public and is revered as a true legend of the Soviet War time cinema.