Marianna was born in
Moscow on 23 January 1925 to film directors
Grigori Roshal and
Vera Stroyeva. While evacuating from fighting in
World War II, she edited films for
Kazakhfilm. She graduated from the directing department at the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1948 under the direction of
Lev Kuleshov. From 1949 to 1954, she was a film director for and a student of
Sergei Eisenstein at the . In 1956, Roshal-Stroyeva directed the film
The White Poodle alongside at the
Odesa Film Studio, based on a story by
Aleksandr I. Kuprin. In 1967, she began working on literary translations and co-authored a historical novel. Roshal-Stroyeva was a member of the Guild of Film Directors of Russia. In her later life, she lived in
London. She was the mother of conceptual artist . Roshal-Stroyeva died in London on 22 October 2022, at the age of 97. ==Filmography==