Years active 1946 — 2007 Name Kira Golovko | Role Theater Actress | |
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Full Name Kira Nikolaevna Ivanova Born 11 March 1919 (age 105) ( 1919-03-11 ) Yessentuki, Russian SFSR Occupation actress
theatre teacher Awards People's Artist of Russia Spouse Arseniy Golovko (m. ?–1962) Movies War and Peace, Sofiya Perovskaya Children Mikhail Golovko, Natalia Golovko Parents Nikolai Ivanov, Natalia Langwagen People also search for Arseniy Golovko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Lev Arnshtam | ||
Russian actress Kira Golovko died at 98
Kira Golovko, née Ivanova (11 March 1919 – 16 August 2017), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
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Life and career
Ivanova was born in Yessentuki, the great-niece of the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov. In 1937, she entered the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and Art to study Russian literature. In 1938 she was accepted into the auxiliary of the troupe of the The Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. In 1957 she returned to the Moscow Art Theater, where she served until 1985. From 1958 to 2007, she taught at the Moscow Art Theater School. Her students included Natalia Yegorova, Boris Nevzorov, and Nikolai Karachentsov. She died on August 16, 2017, age 98. She was the widow of Soviet Admiral Arseniy Golovko, who served as Soviet Commander of the Red Banner Northern Fleet during World War II.