Angelina Stepanova

Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova (Russian: Ангели́на Ио́сифовна Степа́нова, IPA: [ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvə]; 23 November 1905 – 17 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher.

[3] Stepanova was born on 23 November 1905 in Nikolayevsk (now Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai) in the family of an insurance agent and a dentist.

Studying in a Moscow gymnasium, she was fond of ballet.

Since 1921 she studied at the theater school at the Vakhtangov Theatre, which she graduated in 1924, from the same year she worked at the Moscow Art Theatre.

She later became a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School.