Ingrīda Andriņa (23 June 1944 – 17 September 2015) was a
Latvia
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n stage and film actress.
Biography
Born in
Riga
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, Andriņa graduated from the
All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in
Moscow in 1967 and began working at the
Latvian National Theatre. From 1966 she began appearing in films.
Andriņa is possibly best recalled internationally for her role as Agnes von Mönnikhusen in the 1969
Soviet Estonian language film ''
Viimne reliikvia'', directed by
Grigori Kromanov.
Throughout her film career, Andriņa performed in
Latvian-,
Russian-,
Estonian
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* Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe
* Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent
* Estonian language
* Estonian cuisine
* Estonian culture
See also ...
-,
Azerbaijani
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* Something of, or related to Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijanis
* Azerbaijani language
See also
* Azerbaijan (disambiguation)
* Azeri (disambiguation)
* Azerbaijani cuisine
* Culture of Azerbaijan
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- and
Georgian-language films. Her last appearance was in the 2014 Latvian film ''Džimlai Rudis rallallā''.
Andriņa died unexpectedly in 2015 at the age of 71 and was interred at the
Riga Forest Cemetery
Forest Cemetery ( lv, Rīgas Meža kapi) is an large cemetery in the northwestern part of Riga, the capital of Latvia, between the neighbourhoods of Mežaparks and Čiekurkalns. Formally, the cemetery is divided between 1st Forest Cemetery, wit ...
.
Selected filmography
*''
Viimne reliikvia'' (1969)
*''
Liberation'', film series (1972)
*''
Unfinished Supper'' (1979)
*''
The Trust That Has Burst'', television miniseries (1984)
*''Džimlai rūdi rallallā'' (2014)
References
External links
*
Ingrīda Andriņa at the
Latvian National Theatre
1944 births
2015 deaths
Latvian stage actresses
Latvian film actresses
Actors from Riga
Soviet film actresses
Burials at Forest Cemetery, Riga
20th-century Latvian actresses
21st-century Latvian actresses
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