Olga Baclanova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olga Baclanova

actress

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1900

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1974

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova (Russian: ?´???? ?????´??????? ?????´????; 19 August 1893 – 6 September 1974), known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian-American actress of stage and screen, radio host and performer, operatic singer, and ballerina.
She achieved prominence during the silent film era, after taking several years off her age and changing the spelling of her Russian surname from Baklanova.
She was often billed under her last name only, as Baclanova, similarly to the surname-only nomenclature of her fellow countrywoman Nazimova.An exotic blonde temptress, she was known as the "Russian Tigress".
She emigrated to America in 1925, and started appearing in Hollywood films, which she remains most noted for portraying the fictional Duchess Josiana in the Universal Pictures silent The Man Who Laughs and slimy circus trapeze artist Cleopatra in Tod Browning's cult horror movie Freaks (1932), which features a cast of actual carnival sideshow freaks.