Nina "Nutsa" Platonovna Chkheidze ( ka, ინო (ნუცა) პლატონის ასული ჩხეიძე; russian: Нина "Нуца" Платоновна Чхеидзе; 30 September, 1881 – 14 August, 1963) was a

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

n-born Soviet actress. She was born in Kutaisi. Her mother and sisters were both actresses. She was the pupil of

Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili Vladimir (Lado) Alexi-Meskhishvili, Lado Meskhishivili, or Alekseev-Meskhiev ( ka, ვლადიმერ ��ადოალექსი-მესხიშვილი) (February 16, 1857 — November 24, 1920), was a Georgian theater actor and ...

. Chkheidze was the first tragic actress in Georgia at just 13 years old when she first came out on stage. In 1894, she took on the role of a little girl called Emma in a performance of "Offender's Family" staged in Kutaisi Theatre and directed by Kote Meskhi. In 1925, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. She died in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

and was buried in the

Didube Pantheon The Didube Pantheon ( ka, დიდუბის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი) is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, s ...

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