Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova, known as Lila Kedrova, was a Russian-born French actress.
13 Facts About Lila Kedrova
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Lila Kedrova won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film.
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Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kedrova was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia Empire.
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Lila Kedrova's mother, Sofia Gladkaya, was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre and a teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Lila Kedrova's sister, Irene Kedroff, was a soprano.
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In 1928, they moved to France, where Lila Kedrova's mother taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, and her father again recreated Quatuor Kedroff.
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In 1932, Lila Kedrova joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company.
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Lila Kedrova's performance won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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Lila Kedrova then appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's film Torn Curtain, playing the role of Countess Kuchinska, a Polish noblewoman in East Berlin who is desperate to emigrate to the United States.
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Lila Kedrova played Fraulein Schneider in the West End stage production of Cabaret in 1968 with Judi Dench and Peter Sallis.
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Lila Kedrova then played a series of eccentric and crazy women in Hollywood films.
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In 2000, Lila Kedrova died at her summer home in Sault Ste.
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Lila Kedrova's ashes are buried in her family grave in the Russian cemetery in Paris.