Alla Demidova

Alla Sergeyevna Demidova is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre. She was awarded the USSR State Prize and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland .

Alla Demidova was born onSeptember 1936 in Zamoskvorechye, Moscow, and spent her early years at the Osipenko Street. Her father Sergey Alekseyevich Demidov, an heir to the Russian industrialists family, was jailed in 1932 in the course of the Great Purge, but soon got acquitted. In 1941 he joined the Red Army as a volunteer and was killed in action 1944, near Warsaw. Allas mother, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Demidova was working at the Economy department of the Moscow University . Mother and daughter spent the War years in Vladimir, to the East of Moscow. I received too little love from the people around me in those early years to remember them fondly, Demidova later confessed. She debuted as an actress on her schools amateur stage, enjoying her first taste of success.

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