Occupation Film actor Spouse Aleksei Konsovsky Role Actress | Name Vera Altayskaya Years active 1939 - 1976 Children Svetlana Konsovskaya | |
Born 21 May 1919 Petrograd, Russian SFSR
Soviet Union Relatives Konstantin Altaysky-Korolyov (father) Awards Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Died December 28, 1978, Moscow, Russia Parents Vera Altayskaya-Korolyova, Konstantin Altaysky-Korolyov Movies Jack Frost, The Magic Weaver, Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki, Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, Fire - Water - and Brass Pipes Similar People Alexander Rou, Aleksei Konsovsky, Georgy Millyar, Aleksandr Medvedkin | ||
Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya (Russian: Ве́ра Влади́мировна Алта́йская) (21 May 1919 - 28 December 1978) was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.
Born in Petrograd, she was the adoptive daughter of Konstantin Altaysky-Korolyov, a poet and translator, and his wife Vera Petrovna, a pianist. In the late 1930s she moved to Moscow, where in 1940 she graduated from drama school at the Mosfilm studio and joined the studio's repertoire of actors. Her first prominent role was in Yuli Raizman's 1942 film Mashenka.
She married Aleksei Konsovsky, a fellow actor, with whom she had a daughter, Svetlana. In recognition of her film work during the 1940s she received the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
In Mashenka, Altayskaya had played a young beauty, but she later transitioned to character roles. For most of her career, she was typecast as shrewish or matronly characters. She appeared in many children's fairy-tale films, most notably Aleksandr Rou's 1964 film Jack Frost, in which she played a domineering stepmother. She died in Moscow after a brief illness, and her ashes are interred in the columbarium of Vagankovo Cemetery alongside those of her adoptive parents.