Vera Vladimirovna Altaiskaya was born in the city of Petrograd, USSR, on May 21, 1919. When she was still a child, her mother remarried, and the adopted father of the girl was the famous writer Konstantin Altai-Queen.
In the 1930s, Vera moved to Moscow to enter the Acting School, which belonged to the Mosfilm studio. In 1940, the young actress graduated from school and began working in the theater-studio of the film actor. In the movie debuted in 1939, playing a small role in the film “Personal
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Vera Vladimirovna Altaiskaya was born in the city of Petrograd, USSR, on May 21, 1919. When she was still a child, her mother remarried, and the adopted father of the girl was the famous writer Konstantin Altai-Queen.
In the 1930s, Vera moved to Moscow to enter the Acting School, which belonged to the Mosfilm studio. In 1940, the young actress graduated from school and began working in the theater-studio of the film actor. In the movie debuted in 1939, playing a small role in the film “Personal business”.
In 1940, she appeared in the musical comedy “The Bright Way” as Clava, then in the melodrama “The Sailor’s Daughter” in a small role, and only in 1942 she was invited to a more serious role in the feature film “Mashenka” directed by Yuli Raisman. The actress brilliantly played the role of Vera, but after that she stopped playing the roles of beauties, switching to the game of characteristic characters.
Soon Altai married actor Alexei Konsovsky, from whom gave birth to a daughter Svetlana. Together with her husband, the actress starred in several projects in the 1940s.
She can be seen in such films as “Lermontov”, “Big Earth”, “There Once Was a Girl” and
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Great popularity of the actress brought the role of negative heroines in comedies and children's fairy tales "Maria the Artist", "Groom from the other world",
Morozco , "Golden Horns", etc.
In 1960, Vera Altaiskaya played in the film “House with Mezzanine”, shot on the story of A. Chekhov, at the same time appeared in the film adaptation of the novel by N. Gogol “Dead Souls”, over which the director Leonid Trauberg worked.
One of the last works of the talented actress were the films “Gasparone”, “Birds over the city”,
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The last years of her life, Vera was constantly ill, but still did not leave her favorite job. She died in December 1978, was buried next to her parents at the Vagankovo cemetery in Moscow.