Born October 9, 1909· Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
† Died February 16, 2000
18Roles★ 6.2Average rating
Emerging from a lineage of opera singers, she was born in Saint Petersburg and, after her family fled to Berlin and then Paris, joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company in 1932, laying the foundation for a stage career that spanned decades. Her screen debut arrived in the 1938 French drama Ultimatum, followed by numerous supporting roles until the breakthrough English-language performance as…
