Liya Akhedzhakova
Acting
Biography
Liya M. Akhedzhakova (born July 9, 1938, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian theatre and cinema actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1970) and People's Artist of Russia (1994). She became famous for her roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films, especially "Office Romance" (1977), "Garage" (1979), "Irony of Fate" (1975) and "Promised Heaven" (1991). She twice received the Nika Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Aunt Fima in "Promised Heaven" and a Japanese restaurant worker in "Portraying the Victim" in 1992 and 2007, respectively.
Born: July 9, 1938
Place of Birth: Dnepropetrovsk, USSR (Ukraine)
Known For
Talisman
A high school student becomes a talisman for everybody...
Шапка-невидимка
Potapov, to the Board!
A story about a school friends, their adventures, fantasies and first love...
Looking for a Man
At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.
Department
The head of the institute's department, Bryzgalov, abuses his official position. Many employees put up with this: some of them are afraid of Bryzgalov, others count on his patronage in exchange for their lack of principles. Only Barvinskaya boldly exposes Bryzgalov.
Office Romance
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Gogol the Bird
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.
Dunno in Sunny City
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Leto
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Filmography
as Stepanovna
as Yanga Lvovna Artemieva
as Flat's Owner
as Human Rights activist
as Svetlana Semyonovna
as Баба-Яга (озвучка)
as Elizaveta Nikolaevna
as Baba Yaga
as Ustinjya Naumovna, svaha
as Mouse
as Anna Sergeevna
as Biology Teacher
as Гадалка
as Marya Ignatyevna
as Waitress in Japanese restaurant
as Maja Antonovna
as Maja Antonovna
as Lyubov
as Ella Ernestovna
as Fima
as Mouse (voice)
as Mother hedgehog (voice)
as Mouse (voice)
as Nina Pavlovna
as Maria Erastovna Kiparisova
as Зина (администратор)
as Zinaida Maslova
as Mouse (voice)
as Irma
as Roza
as Egg (voice)
as Росита
as Fairy of Sadness
as Grandmother
as The White Queen (voice)
as Barvinskaya
as Irina
as The White Queen (voice)
as Sofya Karpukhina
as Мать Гурского
as Julia Jermolina
as Club Director Olga Pavlovna
as модистка Лулу
as Vika the doctor (voice) (uncredited)
as Елена Павловна Малаева, младший научный сотрудник
as Dzhulietta Ashotovna
as (voice)
as Роза Козодоева
as секретарша Верочка
as Zhikharka (voice)
as (voice)
as Yelizaveta Nikolayevna
as Woman with clocks
as Tanya, Nadia's friend
as Princess Agrafina
as Dusya
as Pioneer on the bike (voice)
as Voice
as Petrushka