Anna Lisyanskaya

Anna Lisyanskaya born Hanna Hryhorivna Lysyanska (1 November 1917 - 2 December 1999) was a Ukrainian and Russian theater and film actress of Jewish origin.

Early life and education Hanna Lysyanska was born on 1 November 1917 in Mykolaiv in a theatrical family. Her father, Hirsh Lysyansky, was the head of the Mykolaiv Jewish Theater.

From 1932 to 1936, she studied at the theater studio at the Kyiv Young Spectator's Theatre.

Since 1949 she was an actress in the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater, named after Aleksandr Pushkin. In addition to theater and cinema, Hanna Lysyanska worked on radio and television. Here she starred in Isaak Dunaevsky's operetta Grooms, where she played Horpina Savvyshna. The last years of her life were spent there.

Hanna Lysyanska died on 2 December 1999 in the city of Arad. On the monument on her grave, there are inscriptions in Russian and Hebrew: "To the Actress of the theater and cinema Hanna Lysyanskaya from fans."

Selected filmography

1942 – Years of youth 1942 – How the steel was tempered 1943 – Rainbow 1953 – Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up 1954 – A Big Family 1955 – Twelfth Night 1955 – The Gadfly 1958 – Sailor from "Comet" 1963 – A Day of Happiness 1964 – Little Hare

1966 – Lenin in Poland 1970 – The magical power of art 1971 – Property of the Republic 1972 – My brother 1973 – Acting architect "Sova" 1974 – Remember Your Name 1975 – Love at first sight 1977 – Born of the revolution 1977 - The Nose 1978 – Three bad days

1979 – Three Men in a Boat 1980 – Doll-Ruslan and his friend Sanka 1982 – An oriole is crying somewhere 1984 – The art of living in Odesa 1989 – Tranti-Vanti 1990 – Zahid 1991 – Get Thee Out 1993 – Fast-flowing gardens