Lyubov Sokolova (actress)

Lyubov Sergeevna Sokolova (russian: Любо́вь Серге́евна Соколо́ва; July 31, 1921June 6, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian cinema actress, named a People's Artist of the USSR. She played more than 300 film roles.

Biography

Lyubov Sokolova studied cinematography with Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova, graduating in 1946.

From 1951 to 1956, she was an actress with the Drama Theatre Group of the Soviet Forces in Germany (Potsdam). She was a studio actress from 1946 to 1951 and in 1956.

Sokolova had her movie debut in 1948, as the simple village woman Varvara in ''The Story of a Real Man''. Some of the films she acted in included '' Quiet Flows the Don'', '' Splendid Days'', ''The story of Asya Klyachina'', ''Far from Moscow'', ''Shine, Shine, My Star'', ''Crime and Punishment'', '' Walking the Streets of Moscow'', ''Thirty Three'', ''The Irony of Fate'', ''Moscow, My Love'', ''White Bim Black Ear'', '' Live Till Monday'', ''Belorussian Station'', '' Do Not Shoot at White Swans'', ''Gentlemen of Fortune'', '' From Dawn Till Sunset'', '' Crash – Cop's Daughter''.

In 1990, Sokolova was People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She was awarded many medals, including for Courage and for Labour Valour.

In Autumn 1994, Sokolova and Maya Bulgakova were victims of an accident as their car crashed into a pole. The actress was in intensive care and discharged after a few weeks, but Bulgakova died a few days later, without ever regaining consciousness.

Sokolova died on 6 June 2001 of a heart attack and was buried in Moscow, at the Kuntsevo Cemetery, near the grave of her son.Умерла мама — Любовь Соколова // Комсомольская правда, 7 июня 2001 года
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Family

* First husband – Georgy Arapovsky, whom she met while studying at the film school.
* Her second husband was director and screenwriter Georgy Danelia. They lived together for about 26 years. In 1959 they had a son, director and poet Nikolai Sokolov-Danelia, who died at the age of 26.

Selected filmography

*1941 – '' Masquerade'' as girl of the ball (episode)
*1951 – ''Far from Moscow'' as Olga Fyodorovna
*1957 – '' The Cranes Are Flying'' as soldier woman (episode)
*1958 – '' And Quiet Flows the Don''
*1959 – '' Ballad of a Soldier'' as a woman in the market (episode)
*1960 – '' Splendid Days'' as Polina
*1963 – '' Introduction to Life'' as Vasya and Lyusa's mother
*1964 – ''The Alive and the Dead'' as doctor (episode)
*1964 – '' Walking the Streets of Moscow'' as Kolka's mother
*1965 – ''Thirty Three'' as Travkin's wife
*1966 – ''Beware of the Car'' as judge
*1966 – ''The Story of Asya Klyachina'' as Maria
*1968 – ''We'll Live Till Monday'' as Levikova
*1970 – ''Shine, Shine, My Star'' as Fyodor's wife
*1970 – ''Crime and Punishment'' as Yelizaveta
*1971 – ''Belorussian Station'' as Luba Prikhodko
*1971 – ''Gentlemen of Fortune'' as kindergarten manager
*1972 – '' Happy Go Lucky'' as train conductor (episode)
*1972 – ''Privalov's Millions'' as Maria Bakhareva
*1974 – ''Earthly Love'' as district committee member
*1974 – ''Moscow, My Love'' as costume designer
*1974 – '' Sokolovo'' as teacher
*1975 – '' From Dawn Till Sunset'' as Pelagia Rozhnova
*1976 – ''The Irony of Fate'' as Nadya's mother
*1977 – ''White Bim Black Ear'' as switch woman (episode)
*1980 – '' A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov'' as seeing off woman (episode)
*1980 – '' Do Not Shoot at White Swans'' as zoo worker
*1981 – ''Could One Imagine?'' as Lisa
*1983 – '' Return from Orbit'' as Sofia Petrovna
*1983 – ''Quarantine'' as aunt Katya
*1985 – '' Do Not Marry, Girls'' as Praskovya Ilinichna
*1985 – ''The Most Charming and Attractive'' as Nadya's mother
*1988 – ''The Life of Klim Samgin'' as Anfimovna
*1989 – '' Crash – Cop's Daughter'' as Yuliya Nikolaevna
*1991 – '' Lost in Siberia'' as Klava
*1994 – ''Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs'' as Maria

References

External links

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Lyubov Sokolova
Online Film Teatr.ru
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1921 births
2001 deaths
People from Ivanovo
Russian film actresses
Soviet film actresses
People's Artists of the USSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
20th-century Russian women