Rina Zelyonaya

Ekaterina Vasilyevna Zelyonaya ; ( — 1 April 1991, Moscow ), better known by her stage name Rina Zelyonaya, was a Soviet actress, singer and comedian. She was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1970.

Biography Ekaterina Zelyonaya was born in Tashkent (modern-day Uzbekistan) into a Russian family of modest means, the third of four children. Her rare surname which translates from Russian as Green had been often taken for a pseudonym by people, just like her stage name Rina (short for Ekaterina). Her paternal grandfather Ivan Kuzmich Zelyoniy was a member of the Tashkent City Duma. According to the actress, her parents didn't fit each other at all.

Her mother Nadezhda Fyodorovna Zelyonaya was given away to marriage at the age 16. She was absolutely careless and couldn't plan family budget which led to grand scandals involving her husband – Vasily Ivanovich Zelyoniy, a low-ranking official, a stingy and generally unsympathetic man, as Rina described him.

Selected filmography actress Road to Life (, 1931) as a girl from a gang Zhigan The Foundling (Подкидыш, 1939) as Arisha Tanya (Светлый путь, 1940) as secretary Encounter at the Elbe (Встреча на Эльбе, 1949) as female German with a bike Springtime (Весна, 1947) as film makeup artist The Girl Without an Address (Девушка без адреса, 1957) as Yelizaveta Timofeyevna A Groom from the Other World (Жених с того света, 1958) as Nina's mother Seven Nannies (Семь нянек, 1962) as woman in red Cain XVIII (Каин XVIII, 1963) as foreign governess A Tale of Lost Times (Сказка о потерянном времени, 1964) as old Nadia Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (Операция "Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика, 1965) as a perturbed female passenger on bus №13 Give me a complaints book (Дайте жалобную книгу, 1965) as elderly singer Three Fat Men (Три толстяка, 1966) as Ganimed The Twelve Chairs (12 стульев, 1971) as editor of "Bride and Groom" Chipollino (Чиполлино, 1972) as Countess Cherry The Adventures of Buratino (Приключения Буратино, 1975) as Tortila the Turtle About the Little Red Riding Hood (Про Красную Шапочку, 1977) as Grandma The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона, 1979–1986) as Mrs. Hudson

voice The Key (Ключ, 1961) as fairy Giatsinta Who Said Meow? (Кто сказал мяу? 1962) as puppet A Little Frog Is looking for His Father (Лягушонок ищет папу? 1964) as little frog Vovka in a Far Away Kingdom (Вовка в Тридевятом царстве, 1965) as Vovka Most, Most, Most, Most (Самый, самый, самый, самый, 1966) as little Lion The Blue Bird (Синяя птица, 1970) as grandmother Losharik (Лошарик, 1971), as Losharik The Mystery of the Third Planet (Тайна третьей планеты, 1981) as Kolya's grandmother Alice in Wonderland (Алиса в Стране чудес, 1981) as Duchess