Lidiya Smirnova

Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova (; 13 February 1915 – 25 July 2007) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952.

Filmography

• The New Moscow (1938) as a girl (uncredited)
• My Love (1940) as Shura
• Lad from Our Town (1942) as Varya Lukonina-Burmina
• She Defends the Motherland (1943) as Fenya
• They Have a Motherland (1949) as orphanage teacher Smayda
• The Miners of Donetsk (1951) as Vera Nikolayevna, Trofimenko's wife
• Silvery Dust (1953) as Flossie Bate, prostitute
• Least We Forget (1954) as Anna Dashenko
• Michman Panin (1960) as Grigoryev's wife
• Silence (1963) as Serafima Ignatyevna Bykova
• It Happened at the Police Station (1963) as Zubareva, professor's wife
• Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) as doctor
• Balzaminov's Marriage (1964) as Akulina Gavrilovna Krasavina, matchmaker
• Village Detective (1969) as Yevdokiya Mironovna Pronina, rural shop clerk
• Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram (1972) as handler and artistic director of circus
• Rudin (1977) as Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya
• Carnival (1981) as chairman of the inspection board
• Premonition of Love (1982) as Marya Georgiyevna

Awards and honors

• Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (one in 1950)
• Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951) – for her portrayal of Smayda in They Have a Motherland (1949)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1965)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1974)
• Order of the October Revolution (1985)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (1995)
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2000)
• Order of Friendship (2005)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

References

External links

• Лидия Смирнова, биография в изложении Фёдора Раззакова