Lila Kedrova

Lila Kedrova , was a Russianborn French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Zorba the Greek , and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film.

Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918, in Petrograd, Russia, although the year is impossible to ascertain. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Her father, Nikolay, was a singer and composer, a creator of the first Russian male quartet to perform liturgical chants. Her mother, Sofia Gladkaya , was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre and a teacher of Conservatoire de Paris. Kedrovas brother, Nikolay was a Russian singer and composer of liturgical music.

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