Līga Liepiņa (born August 1, 1946) is a
Latvian actress.
Biography
Liepiņa was born in
Naukšēni. Her father was a forest worker, her mother worked in a kindergarten. She finished school in 1964, the People's studio of the actor at the Riga Cinema studio in 1970 and the faculty of theatre at the Latvian Music Academy in 1974.
After her studies, Liepiņa was part of the group of the State Theater of the Youth from 1971 to 1976. Since 1977 she was an actress at the
National Theatre of Latvia.
Films
Her first film was ''
Four White Shirts'' (''Elpojiet dzili'' or ''Cetri balti krekli'') directed by
Rolands Kalniņš
Rolands Kalniņš (9 May 1922 – 17 May 2022) was a Latvian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Biography
Rolands Kalniņš was born on 9 May 1922 in Vecslabada, Istra Parish, Latvia to a post worker family. From 1937 to 1940, he s ...
, from 1967.
There she had the role of Bella. However, the film was forbidden by Soviet censorship. Liepiņa became famous by playing the role of Emma Karkls in the film ''U bogatoj gospozhi'' (''"У богатой госпожи"'') by Leonīds Leimanis in 1969 after a novel by
Andrejs Upīts
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer.
Career and literary activity
Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas vie ...
. She had roles in more than 20 films.
Liepiņa is a part of the National Theatre of Latvia until now.
References
Web sources
Биография Лиги Лиепини на сайте kino-teatr.ru Biography of Liepina, in Russian*
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1946 births
Living people
Latvian stage actresses
Latvian film actresses
20th-century Latvian actresses
People from Naukšēni Municipality