Anna Lisyanskaya

Hanna Lysyanska was born on 1 November 1917 in Mykolaiv in a theatrical family. Her father, Hirsh Lysyansky, was the head of the Mykolaiv Jewish Theater. From 1932 to 1936, she studied at the theater studio at the Kyiv Young Spectator's Theatre. In 1935, Lysyanska worked at the State Theater of Musical Comedy of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Kyiv Operetta Theater). == Career ==

In 1936, Lysyanska returned to Mykolaiv, where she worked at the Theater of the Young Spectator until 1938. There Lysyanska played in productions based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, and she later came to these roles in the last years of her life. Lysyanska was noticed by Kyiv director Mykola Makarenko. In 1938, she was invited to the troupe of the Kyiv Molodyy Theater, where she played Juliet in William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Yulenka in The Profitable Place by Alexander Ostrovsky, Yelena in A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, and other roles. In this theater, the young actress was noticed by screenwriter Ihor Savchenko. Thanks to him, Lysyanska made her film debut in 1941, playing the main role of Nastya in Hrigory Hrycher-Cherikover's film Years of Youth ( Kyiv Film Studio, Ashgabat Film Studio). Since 1949 she was an actress in the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater, named after Aleksandr Pushkin. In addition to theater and cinema, Hanna Lysyanska worked on radio and television. Here she starred in Isaak Dunaevsky's operetta Grooms, where she played Horpina Savvyshna. The last years of her life were spent there. Hanna Lysyanska died on 2 December 1999 in the city of Arad. On the monument on her grave, there are inscriptions in Russian and Hebrew: "To the Actress of the theater and cinema Hanna Lysyanskaya from fans." == Selected filmography ==

• 1942 – Years of youth • 1942 – How the steel was tempered • 1943 – Rainbow • 1953 – Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up • 1954 – A Big Family • 1955 – Twelfth Night • 1955 – The Gadfly • 1958 – Sailor from "Comet" • 1963 – A Day of Happiness • 1964 – Little Hare • 1966 – Lenin in Poland • 1970 – The magical power of art • 1971 – Property of the Republic • 1972 – My brother • 1973 – Acting architect "Sova" • 1974 – Remember Your Name • 1975 – Love at first sight • 1977 – Born of the revolution • 1977 - The Nose • 1978 – Three bad days • 1979 – Three Men in a Boat • 1980 – Doll-Ruslan and his friend Sanka • 1982 – An oriole is crying somewhere • 1984 – The art of living in Odesa • 1989 – Tranti-Vanti • 1990 – Zahid • 1991 – Get Thee Out • 1993 – Fast-flowing gardens == References ==