Ada Wójcik
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Born |
Ada Ignatievna Wójcik 1 August 1905 Moscow, Russian Empire |
Died |
2 September 1982 77) Moscow, USSR | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1926-1971 |
Ada Ignatievna Wójcik (Russian: Ада Игнатьевна Войцик; 1 August 1905 – 2 September 1982) was a Soviet actress. In 1935 she received the title RSFSR Honored Artist.[1]
Biography
Ada Ignatievna Wójcik was born on 1 August 1905 in Moscow. The name Ada is a diminutive of Adriana or Adrianna and Wójcik (/ˈvujt͡ɕik/ ) is a Polish surname.
In 1923 Ada graduated from secondary school and entered the acting department of the State College of Cinematography (today known as VGIK), where she graduated in 1927.[2][1]
She started acting in cinema in the year 1925. In 1934 Ada Wójcik joined the staff of the Mosfilm film studio.[2]
She married director Ivan Pyryev and they had a son, Eric Pyryev (1931-1970), who also subsequently became a director.
In 1941 together with the studio she was evacuated to Alma-Ata.[2]
On her return to Moscow in 1943, Ada became an actress at the National Film Actors' Theatre, where she worked until her retirement in 1961.[2]
In the last years of her life, Ada Wójcik did not appear in films.
Ada Wójcik lived through the death of her son and Ivan Pyryev. She died in Moscow on 2 September 1982 at the age of 77, and was buried in the Khovanskoye Cemetery.[3]
Selected filmography
- All the King's Men (TV mini-series) (1971)
- Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (TV mini-series) (1963)
- Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Maria Tikhonovna
- Sampo (1959) as Mother of Lemminkäinen
- Rozhdyonnye burey (1958) as Yadviga Rayevskaya
- Puti i sudby (1955) as Maria Vasilyevna
- Attack from the Sea (1952) as Queen Carolina
- Ivan the Terrible (1944) as Elena Glinskaya
- Dream (1943) as Vanda
- The Murderers are Coming (1942) as Marta
- The Oppenheim Family (1939) as Liselotte Lavendal Oppenheim
- The Happy Canary (1929) as Lugovec' wife
- Ukhod za bolnym (1929) as Nurse
- Svoi i chuzhiye (1928) as Shura
- The House on Trubnaya (1928) as Fenya
- The Doll With Millions (1928) as Maria Ivanova
- Bulat-Batır (1928) as Asma
- The Forty-First (1927 film) as Maryutka
- Raznostoronniy treugolnik (1927) as Wifey
References
- 1 2 "Ада Войцик". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema.
- 1 2 3 4 "Ада Войцик". VokrugTV.
- ↑ "Войцик Ада Игнатьевна (1905-1982)". necropol.
External links
- Ada Wójcik on IMDb