Portrait of Vera Kholodnaya

Vera Kholodnaya

Acting

Biography

Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya (née Levchenko) was a Ukrainian-born actress of the silent film era. She was the first star of Imperial Russian cinema. Only eight of her films have survived, in part or in whole, and the total number she acted in is unknown, with speculation ranging from 50 to 100.

Born: August 5, 1893

Place of Birth: Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Filmography

1979
Cinema in Russia

as Film footage

1918
A Corpse Living

as Masha, gypsy woman

1918
1918
Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

as Paula, Lorio's partner

1917
The Beast in Man

as Séverine

1917
At The Beauty's Altar

as Polya, forester's daughter

1917
How They Lie

as Ganka, the dancer

1917
Tortured Souls

as Countess Rutskaya

1917
Metropolitan Poison

as Vera Darovskaya

1916
The Moon Beauty

as Anya, Stroev's daughter

1916
A Life for a Life

as Nata Khromova

1916
Mirages

as Marianna

1915
Children of the Age

as Mariya Nikolayevna

1914
Anna Karenina

as Italian wet-nurse (uncredited)

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