Kira Golovko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolaevna and the family name is Golovko.

Kira Golovko, née Ivanova (11 March 1919 – 16 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957).

Kira Golovko PAR
Born	Kira Nikolaevna Ivanova (Russian: Кира Николаевна Иванова) (1919-03-11)11 March 1919 Yessentuki, Russian SFSR
Died	16 August 2017(2017-08-16) (aged 98) Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)	actress theatre teacher
Years active	1946–2007
Spouse	Arseniy Golovko (deceased)
Children	Natalia Mikhail
Awards	People's Artist of Russia

Life and career

Ivanova was born in Yessentuki, the great-niece of the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov. In 1937, she entered the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and Art to study Russian literature. In 1938 she was accepted into the auxiliary of the troupe of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. In 1957 she returned to the Moscow Art Theater, where she served until 1985. From 1958 to 2007, she taught at the Moscow Art Theater School. Her students included Natalia Yegorova, Boris Nevzorov, and Nikolai Karachentsov. She died on August 16, 2017, age 98. She was the widow of Soviet Admiral Arseniy Golovko, who served as Soviet Commander of the Red Banner Northern Fleet during World War II.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1946	The Great Glinka	Anna Kern
1947	Light over Russia	Masha Zabelina
1948	First-Year Student	Nina Vasilyevna
1952	The Lower Depths	Natasha
1964	The Chairman	Nadezhda Petrovna
1965 1966 1967	War and Peace	Countess Rostova	part 1-5
1968	Sofiya Perovskaya	Perovskaya's mother
1969	Golfstrim	Yekaterina Nikolayevna
1970	Payback	registry office employee
1971	And There Was Evening, and There Was Morning ...	Berseneva
1973	The Tracer	episode
1974	And on the Pacific Ocean...	Nadezhda Lvovna
1975	Unforgotten Song	Ganna Maksimovna
1977	Own Opinion'	episode
1979	Faithfully and Truthfully	Vladislav Minchenko's mother
1981	My Eternal Love	Olga Zubova
1984	The Lonely Merchant's Win	mother
1986	Boris Godunov	Ksenia's mother
1987	The Confrontation	neighbour	(final fim role)

External links

• Kira Golovko at IMDb