Larisa Eryomina-Wain (born September 19, 1950, Moldavia) is a stage and screen actress, particularly in Soviet films of the 1970s. She left the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

in 1979, to raise her family and pursue a career in Hollywood. She has acted in dozens of films, television programs and stage productions. She has also taught acting and directing extensively. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

Biography

Born in

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

, the second largest city of the

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 ...

, Eryomina is prominent among European actors and directors living in the United States. She studied the renowned

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at the

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, with actors and directors who worked directly with Stanislavsky. Her graduation parts were Desdemona of Shakespeare's "Othello" and the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro," a musical production based on the play by Beaumarchais. After graduation she played roles in dramas, comedies and musicals, on stage and in movies. "That girl can play anything", said Andrei Goncharov, the artistic director of the Moscow repertory theatre where Eryomina worked. She was popular all over the Soviet Union and in Eastern European countries such as Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and many others. Eryomina and her family left the Soviet Union for the United States at the peak of her acting career, having four offers for leading roles in major movies at the time of her immigration. Immediately after arriving in

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, she was offered a contract by one of the most prestigious modeling agencies, and promptly turned it down. In 1980 she and her family moved to

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, where she has been working successfully in movies and on stage. She also directs, writes and continues working on enhancing her acting skills. After a stage production based on the play "Between East and West" by Richard Nelson, Silvia Dreik, a theatre critic from the ''Los Angeles Times'' said "...Larisa Eryomina is an actress of a caliber of Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eryomina, Larisa Russian stage actresses 1950 births Living people Soviet film actresses Moscow Art Theatre School alumni People from Tiraspol