Lyudmila Kasatkina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet and Russian actress
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Place of Birth: Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
About Lyudmila Kasatkina
- Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????????; 15 May 1925 – 22 February 2012), was a Soviet and Russian actress who starred in a string of war-related films directed by her husband Sergey Kolosov.She was born in a village near Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast, and attended a ballet school.
- After breaking her leg at age 14 she gave up her dream of dancing and joined the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
- Kasatkina joined the troupe of the Red Army Theatre in 1947 and worked there for the rest of her life.
- Her breakthrough film role was a tiger tamer in Tamer of Tigers (1955) where she was body/stunt doubled by Margarita Nazarova, a professionally trained tiger handler.
- She appeared in such film adaptations as The Taming of the Shrew (1961) and The Darling (1966, after Chekhov). Kasatkina was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975 and was awarded the Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2 class in 2010.
- She died in Moscow eleven days after the death of her husband, Sergey Kolosov.
- The couple were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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