Alla Kazanskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alla Kazanskaya

Russian actress

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1920

Place of Birth: Bessarabia

Date of Death: 24-Jun-2008

Profession: film actor

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya (Russian: ???? ????????????? ?????????) (15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russian stage and film actress.
She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow.
It was to Kazanskaya that the composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the Waltz from his incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade.
By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress.
She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award in 2007. Kazanskaya was the fourth wife of director Boris Barnet, who committed suicide in 1965.
Their daughter Olga Barnet is also an actress.
Kazanskaya's most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winning drama Burnt by the Sun (1994).