1. Alla Sergeyevna Demidova is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre.
16 Facts About Alla Demidova
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Alla Demidova was awarded the USSR State Prize and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
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Alla Demidova was born on 29 September 1936 in Zamoskvorechye, Moscow, and spent her early years at the Osipenko Street.
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Alla's mother, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Demidova was working at the Economy department of the Moscow University.
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Alla Demidova debuted as an actress on her school's amateur stage, enjoying her first taste of success.
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In 1957 Alla Demidova debuted on screen in the director Zakhar Agranenko's Leningrad Symphony.
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In 1964 Alla Demidova graduated from the Shchukin Institute, having presented as her diploma work the role of Mrs Young in Yuri Lyubimov's adaptation of Bertholt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan.
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The reason for Lyubimov's mistrust might have been the fact that in her first leading role here, that of Vera in A Hero of Our Time, Alla Demidova, admittedly, 'failed miserably'.
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Some of her roles Alla Demidova later dismissed as unworthy of attention, describing others as "curious".
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In 1968 Alla Demidova started to get major roles in Taganka, Elmyra in Moliere's Tartuffe being the first in the line.
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Still, Alla Demidova felt underrated and ignored at Taganka and defined herself as an Efros's kind of actress.
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Alla Demidova decided to produce The Cherry Orchard, aiming from the start to come up with something quite different from the old-fashioned textbook Moscow Art Theater version of the Chekhov's classic.
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In 1988 Alla Demidova joined forces with theatre director Roman Viktyuk who staged Marina Tsvetayeva's Phaedra.
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Once it became obvious that the confrontation started to seriously undermine the quality of Taganka's work, Alla Demidova quit the theatre.
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Now firmly under the impression that theatre in Russia, as well as abroad, was in crisis, Alla Demidova quit the stage altogether.
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In Boris Blank's Death of Tairov Alla Demidova played Alisa Koonen.