Nina Yakovlevna Shaternikova (29 May 1902, Moscow – 27 November 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet stage and film actress.

Shaternikova as princess Hellen in Yunost poeta (1936)

Life

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Her first film role was in the 1919 In the Days of Struggle. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1923 and then from the "Lenfilm" actors' studio under Boris Sohn in 1936. She performed in the Leningrad Comedy Theatre from 1937 to 1941 and the National Film Actors' Theatre company from 1945. She died in 1982 and is buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Shaternikova was married to Sergei Yutkevich, the director of Lace, which she starred in.[1]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Youngblood, Denise J. (1992). Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s. Cambridge University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-521-46632-5.
  2. ^ Beumers, Birgit (2016-05-17). A Companion to Russian Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-118-42473-5.
  3. ^ Morrison, Simon (2010-10-25). The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years. Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19-983098-5.
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