Rufina Nifontova

Rufina Dmitriyevna Nifontova (; 15 September 1931 – 27 November 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography Rufina Nifontova was born in Moscow in a family with Greek roots.

Nifontova studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (course of Bibikov-Pyzhova). In 1955 she graduated from VGIK and was admitted to the Film Actor Theater Studio.

In 1957 Nifontova came into the troupe of the Maly Theatre,

Personal life Father – Dmitry Ivanovich Pitade

Selected filmography The Sisters (1957) as Katya Bulavina The First Visitor (1965) as Alexandra Kollontai Year as Long as Life (1966) as Jenny Marx Intervention (1968) as Madam Tokarchuk, raider Honoré de Balzac's Mistake (1968) as Ewelina Hańska Do Not Part with Your Beloved (1979) as people's judge Could One Imagine? (1980) as Tatyana Nikolayevna's mother Time and the Conways (1984) as Mrs. Conway