
Acting
Born December 8, 1934 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union. Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war. In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of BDT in which she works to this day. Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993). On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.

Strict Regime Parents
2022

Alisa: Excitement
2020

BDT Digital: Excitement
2020

Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
2019

Thawed Carp
2017

The Bolshoi
2016

Martha's Line
2014

Voices
2014

The Music of Life
2009

The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
2009

A Room and a Half
2009

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2007

California Suite
2007

Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon
2006

Quartet
2005

On Upper Maslovka Street
2005

Katya Ismailova
1994

The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
1994

Musketeers 20 Years Later
1993

Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1989

To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love...
1988

Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends
1988

Forgive Me
1986

The Secret of the Snow Queen
1986

A Simple Death
1985

A Cruel Romance
1984

Success
1984

Вместе с Дунаевским
1984

A Canary Cage
1983

Two Voices
1982

Fifth Decade
1982

A Dangerous Age
1981

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981

Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
Thanks for Non-flying Weather
1981

An Old-Fashioned Comedy
1980

Separated
1980

Three Years
1980

Alisa Freyndlikh
1979

Stalker
1979

Office Romance
1977

Blue Puppy
1976

The Princess and the Pea
1976

Always With Me
1976

Extraordinary Sunday
1975

Anna and Commander
1975

Kovalyova From the Provinces
1975

Memorial Train
1975

The Executive
1974

The Straw Hat
1974

Melodies of the Vera Quarter
1973

The Taming of the Shrew
1973

My Life
1972

The Secret of the Iron Door
1970

Family Happiness
1970

Yesterday, Today and Always
1970

Вальс
1969

Great Cold
1969

City and Song
1968

To Love
1968

Adventures of a Dentist
1967

12 Chairs
1966

First Visitor
1966

Fro
1964

Striped Trip
1961

The Story about Newlyweds
1960

The City Turns the Lights On
1958

Immortal Song
1957

Talents and Admirers
1956