Lyudmila Kasatkina

Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (; 15 May 192522 February 2012) was a Soviet and Russian actress who starred in a string of war-related films directed by her husband Sergey Kolosov.

Biography Kasatkina was born in a village near Vyazemsky Uyezd, Smolensk Oblast, and attended a ballet school. After breaking her leg at age 14, she gave up her dream of dancing and joined the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. Kasatkina joined the troupe of the Red Army Theatre in 1947 and worked there for the rest of her life. Her breakthrough film role was a tiger tamer in Tamer of Tigers (1955) where she was body/stunt doubled by Margarita Nazarova, a professionally trained tiger handler. She appeared in such film adaptations as The Taming of the Shrew (1961) The couple were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Selected filmography Tamer of Tigers (Укротительница тигров, 1955) as Lena Vorontsova Honeymoon (Медовый месяц, 1956) as Lyuda Odintsova Adventures of Mowgli (Маугли, 1967–71) as Bagheera (voice) Big School-Break (Большая перемена, 1972) as The School Director Remember Your Name (Помни имя своё, 1974) as Zinaida Grigorievna Vorobyova The Circus Princess (Принцесса цирка, 1982) as Madame Caroline Mother Mary (Мать Мария, 1982) as Maria Skobtsova Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (Яды, или Всемирная история отравлений, 2001) as Eugenia Ivanovna Kholodkova