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- Birth nameLilita Arvidovna Ozolina
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Lilita Ozolina is a Soviet and Latvian theater and film actress. Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR.
Born in Riga, in a family of intellectuals: mother Albertina, worked as an assistant director at a German film studio, father Arvid, was a test pilot. At the age of ten, she auditioned for the role of a shepherdess in the film Ekho (1960), but she was not taken. After 8 years, Lilita entered the People's Film Actor Studio at the Riga Film Studio. During her school years, she planned to become a doctor. And in parallel with her studies, she underwent vocational training at a medical school and practiced as a nurse at the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Riga. Since 1966, she began working at the Jan Rainis Art Theatre. In 1969, Lilita graduated from the film actor studio, and in 1971 - the acting department of the J. Vitols Latvian State Conservatory.
She made her film debut, playing the role of Velta in the film Kad lietus un veji sitas loga (1968), which was filmed by one of the studio's teachers, director Aloizs Brencs. This was followed by other film work. However, it was her role as Marta in Dolgaya doroga v dyunakh (1982) that brought her popularity. Having played Marta, she became the star of the Soviet screen. Her photographs were instantly sold out at the kiosks, and young mothers named their daughters after her heroine. The success of the film was followed by numerous film offers. She starred in the musical Isa pamaciba milesana (1982), in the comedy Salavecisa personiga dzive (1982), in the political detective story Dvoynoy kapkan (1986) and others.- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- Ozolina studied at the studio of folk film actors of the Riga Cinema Studio , and at the same time, in 1966, she started working at the J. Raina State Academic Art Theater of the Latvian SSR .
- She was a Latvian theater and film actress .
- In 1971, Lilita Ozolina graduated from the acting faculty of The Jazeps Vitolas Academy of Music of Latvia , became popular with the role of Vijas in the film " Ezera sonata " (1976) and the role of Marta in the film " Long road in the hills " (1981).
- Her daughter Liliana Ozolina, a public relations specialist, was the director of the TV channel MTV Latvija .
- After the collapse of the USSR, she left her job at the Riga Film Studio , but continued to work at the Daile Theater, and also participated in the performances of the Latvian National Theater and M. Chekhov's Riga Russian Theater .
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