Alisa Freindlich
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Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих) is a major Russian actress from Saint Petersburg. She was born on December 8, 1934 in the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the USSR. She worked in the Lensovet Theatre from 1961 but had to leave it following her divorce with the theatre's director in 1982. Thereupon Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join his company, 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 Sluzhebnyi Roman (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1971), the TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's flat was visited by President Putin, who invested her with one of the top decorations of the Russian Federation.
