Great actress Irina Likso and her 60 years on stage and in the frame

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Quite a bit Irina Likso did not reach her 90th birthday, all this time she remained a sought-after actress in cinema and theater. Her work will become an example for young actors and an example of a dramatic versatile actress.

Valuable Lixo experience

In her work, Irina Likso has always remained first of all a theater actress and only secondly - cinema. Her appearances on the screen were irregular and with long breaks. Several years elapsed between filming. But on the stage, the woman consistently evoked a standing ovation from the audience.

And yet, in the domestic cinema Likso Irina left a huge mark with the images and words of her heroines. Among the paintings with her participation are many great works. An experienced theater actress with an excellent education was trusted to play in the adaptation of classic literary works. The characters of the novels of Dostoevsky and Honore de Balzac possessed her face, and with her help the directors transferred the lives of famous historical figures to the screen.

But Irina devoted most of her life and career not to the big screen, but to the State Drama Maly Theater of Russia. There she played more than 60 roles.years.

Irina's biography

Irina Likso - an actress with a "heavy" list of roles on the stage and in the frame, was born back in 1920. She had to survive the war and many generational changes.

Now it is difficult to judge the reasons for her choice of profession, but immediately after school, the girl entered the most prestigious university of that time, where one could get a dramatic education. In Moscow, the future favorite of millions studied at the Shchepkin Theater School and began working there already in the theater.

When the invaders threatened to capture the country's capital soon, not only factories and governments, but also theaters along with actors had to be evacuated to the east to other cities. Among them was Irina Likso, who at that time was still a student. The girl had to take her first steps on stage in Chelyabinsk.

Irina was awarded the title of Honored Artist at the very beginning of her career, and much later she will become popular. Also favored by her homeland in the form of awarding several honorary orders of merit as an actress.

Key roles of Lixo

In working with her, the directors relied on Likso's excellent dramatic training and theatrical experience. In the cinema, Irina was called every time when it was necessary to play a complex character role at key points in the plot. All her colleagues and even administrators in the cinema understood that Likso alone could decide the fate of this or that tape. Although among her filming partners there were legendary representatives of Russian cinema.

The in-demand performer of roles on stage and in the frame could choose films for herself from among those offered to her. A woman often decided to strengthen the film crew of the film that she herself liked with her participation.

It is noteworthy that directors needed her help until very recently, and the last time Irina Likso appeared on the screen in 2005, 4 years before her death. The heart of the great actress stopped in 2009 when she turned 88.

Certificate Record

At the drama school, after studying with the best teachers in the country, the girl accumulates skills in acting. And after graduation, the girl is immediately taken to work in the theater. And much later, only at the age of 32, already as an experienced and recognized actress, the woman accepts an invitation to shoot and makes her film debut. Compared to the theatrical scene, her film track record is much shorter. The full list is limited to 22 films.

• "Composer Glinka";
• "Woe from Wit";
• "Barbarians. Scenes in a county town";
• "Wings";
• "Eugenia Grande";
• "At the beginning of the century";
• "Northern Light";
• "Missing Official";
• "Sin";
• "The very last day";
• "Wolves and sheep";
• "Before sunset";
• "Dostigaev and others";
• "Humiliated and Insulted";
• "Mad money";
• "Summerwalks" (teleplay);
• "Children of Vanyushin" (teleplay);
• "Unripe Raspberry" (film-play);
• "Anna Karamazoff";
• "And the wind returns…";
• "Dasha Vasilyeva. Lover of private investigation";
• "Lyuba, children and the factory…".

Her acting skills are indicated not only by the enviable quality of the roles, but also by her career longevity. Staying in demand for 60 years and playing the last roles already when she was 80 years old - few of her colleagues managed to do this.