Maria Vladimirovna Mironova
Soviet and Russian actress
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Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова; 7 January 1911 [O.S. 25 December 1910] – 13 November 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actress who worked in film, television and theatre. She was a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker (Russian: Миронова и Менакер), in which she performed with her husband, Aleksandr Menaker, for decades on stage.[4] Her son, Andrei Mironov, was a well-known actor.[1][3]
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Maria Mironova | |
|---|---|
Мария Миронова | |
Mironova in the 1940 film Crime and Punishment | |
| Born | 7 January 1911 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 13 November 1997 (aged 86) Moscow, Russia |
Burial place | Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow[1] 55°46′05″N 37°32′54″E |
| Education | Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts[2] |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1927–1997 |
| Notable work | Mironova and Menaker |
| Spouse |
Aleksandr Menaker
(died 1982) |
| Children | Andrei Mironov[1][3] |
| Relatives | Maria Mironova (granddaughter) |
| Awards | People's Artist of the USSR (1991)[2] |
She was named People's Artist of the USSR by the Soviet government in 1991.[2]
Life and career
Mironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a petite-bourgeoisie family.[3]
In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (now[update] the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts).[2] She became a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker, in which she performed on stage with her husband, Alexander Menaker, for about three and a half decades since the duo debuted in 1939, until Menaker's death in 1982.[4] They typically acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple; Mironova's characters were often a domineering and ignorant wife, whilst Menaker always took the role of a weak-willed husband.[5] Each sketch they performed took no more than five minutes.[5]
The memoir ...In Their Repertoire (...В своём репертуаре) was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication.[6] She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov's play The Old Man Left the Old Woman (Уходил старик от старухи) just a few days before her hospitalisation and death.[4] Mironova died on 13 November 1997, at the age of 86, at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.[4] She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier.[1]
Selected filmography
- Volga-Volga (1938)[2]
- Merry Stars (1954)[2]
- The Boys from Leningrad (1954)[2]
- Did We Meet Somewhere Before (1954)[2]
- The Willy-nilly Chauffeur (1958)[2]
- Old Acquaintance (1969 film) (1969)[2]
- An Almost Funny Story (1977)[2]
- Gigolo and Gigolette (1980)[2]
- Assignment (Soviet film) (1980)[2]
- Maritza (film) (1985)[2]
