Malvina Shvidler

Malvina Shvidler was born on August 19, 1919, in Odesa. Her father operated a brickmaking factory.^[3] In 1934, after graduating from a labor school, she took part in the competition for the preparatory course for the Russian department of the Odessa Theater School.^[4] In 1939, Shvidler graduated from Odesa Theater School and played in Odesa Theater of Miniatures.^[5] The same year she married the director of the Lviv variety art Boris Zhelkov.^[6]

From 1939 to 1941 she was an actress of the Lviv Philharmonic Society.^[5]

During the World War II, in 1941–1944, Shvidler served in the Tashkent Academic Russian Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky.^[7] Since 1945 she was an actress at the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.^[5]

Shvidler played roles in more than 80 theater performances^[3] and 13 films.^[8] Among her works in cinema are such films as: Trap, Your Name, Mistress, Where are you knights?, Adventures with a Tarapunka jacket, Tatarka.^[7]

In 1972, Shvidler was awarded a title of an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and in 1996, the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.^[3] In 1999, she became a winner of the Kyiv Pectoral Award for outstanding contribution to theatrical art.^[2] Shvidler was a member of the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine.

In 2002, Shvidler appeared in her last stage performance of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.^[7]

Malvina Shvidler died on 15 July 2011 in Kyiv in the age of 92.^[9] She was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove cemetery.^[3]

In 2013, the memoirs of Malvina Shvidler Life is like a children's shirt ... compiled by Lyubov Zhuravleva were published.^[10]