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Svetlana Svetlichnaya(1940-2024)

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Svetlana Svetlichnaya in The Diamond Arm (1969)
Svetlana Svetlichnaya is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR. Even in kindergarten, she began attending a drama club, and later continued to study in a theater studio during her school years. Her mother played a huge role in her becoming an actress. Her mother herself dreamed of becoming an actress in her youth, but she married a military man and tried to realize her dream through her daughter. In her youth, Svetlana was actively involved in sports - she played volleyball, basketball, did athletics, gymnastics, and swam well.

In 1958, at the insistence of her mother, Svetlana entered VGIK, which she graduated from in 1963, taking the course of Mikhail Romm. Andrei Konchalovsky, Galina Polskikh, and Valeriy Nosik studied with her on the course. After graduating from university, she joined the troupe of the Film Actor's Studio Theater.

She made her film debut in 1960 in Mikhail Kalik's film Kolybelnaya (1960). And she played her first big role - Nadya Kolchina - in Tatyana Lioznova's film Im pokoryaetsya nebo (1963) in 1961, while still a student at VGIK. She received widespread love from viewers after her role as the fatal temptress Anna Sergeevna in the comedy The Diamond Arm (1969). She is also remembered for many of her other roles - the lady in Father Sergius (1979), Gabi in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), the flight attendant in the drama Nepodsuden (1969).
BornMay 15, 1940
DiedNovember 16, 2024(84)
BornMay 15, 1940
DiedNovember 16, 2024(84)
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    • 1 win total

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Known for

The Diamond Arm (1969)
The Diamond Arm
8.2
  • Anna Sergeevna
  • 1969
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
8.7
TV Mini Series
  • Nadya, Larisa's sister
Lyudmila Khityaeva, Ivan Savkin, and Svetlana Svetlichnaya in Stryapukha (1966)
Stryapukha
6.3
  • Pavlina Khutornaya
  • 1966
Day of Wrath (1985)
Day of Wrath
6.0
  • Zhenschina s razvalin
  • 1985

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  • Yuriy Vorobyov, Yuliya Samoylenko, and Alexander Petrov in Belovodye. Tayna zateryannoy strany (2019)
    Belovodye. Tayna zateryannoy strany
    7.1
    TV Mini Series
    • Svetlana Svetlichnaya
    • 2019
  • Sylvia Hoeks in The Girl and Death (2012)
    The Girl and Death
    6.3
    • Old Nina
    • 2012
  • Renata Litvinova in Boginya: kak ya polyubila (2004)
    Boginya: kak ya polyubila
    6.8
    • Mom the ghost
    • 2004
  • Dom na kamne (1994)
    Dom na kamne
    • 1994
  • Präriejäger in Mexiko (1988)
    Präriejäger in Mexiko
    4.9
    TV Mini Series
    • (as Swetlana Swetlitschnaja)
    • 1988
  • Day of Wrath (1985)
    Day of Wrath
    6.0
    • Zhenschina s razvalin
    • 1985
  • Anna Pavlova (1983)
    Anna Pavlova
    6.8
    TV Mini Series
    • Masha
    • 1983
  • Aleksandr Parra and German Yushko in Trete izmerenie (1981)
    Trete izmerenie
    6.8
    TV Mini Series
    • Olga
    • 1981
  • The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)
    The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
    8.7
    TV Mini Series
    • Nadya, Larisa's sister
    • 1979
  • Nedopesok Napoleon III (1979)
    Nedopesok Napoleon III
    6.3
    • Merinova (as S. Svetlichnaya)
    • 1979
  • Koren zhizni (1977)
    Koren zhizni
    • Sabina (as S. Svetlichnaya)
    • 1977
  • Leonid Kuravlyov, Valeriy Nosik, and Roman Tkachuk in A Bargain for a Bargain (1977)
    A Bargain for a Bargain
    6.4
    • Valya (as S. Svetlichnaya)
    • 1977
  • Eti neveroyatnyye muzykanty ili Novyye snovideniya Shurika (1977)
    Eti neveroyatnyye muzykanty ili Novyye snovideniya Shurika
    6.2
    TV Movie
    • 1977
  • Kogda drozhit zemlya (1975)
    Kogda drozhit zemlya
    6.9
    • Irina
    • 1975
  • Zakrytie sezona (1975)
    Zakrytie sezona
    6.1
    • Zoya Moreno
    • 1975

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • S. Svetichnaya
  • Height
    • 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
  • Born
    • May 15, 1940
    • Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]
  • Died
    • November 16, 2024
    • Moscow, Russia
  • Spouses
      Sergey Sokolsky1998 - 1998 (divorced)
  • Children
      Oleg Ivashov
  • Parents
      Afanasiy Svetlichnyy
  • Relatives
      Valeriy Svetlichnyy(Sibling)

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    Considered the main sex symbol of Soviet cinema.

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