Biography

Marianna Vertinskaya is a Russian stage and film actress.

She was born Marianna Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya, on July 28, 1943, on a train going to Shanghai, China. Her father, Aleksandr Vertinskiy was a legendary White Russian émigré, who was a popular actor, singer and songwriter. Her mother, Lidiya Vertinskaya (née Lidia Vladimirovna Tsirgvava), was also a Russian émigré who was born into a Georgian-Russian family in Kharbin, and her junior sister, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, was born in 1944, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

Young Marianna Vertinskaya had a happy childhood together with her sister, Anastasia. She was brought up in a multi-lingual family where she enjoyed an intellectually stimulating environment, and a highly cultural atmosphere of her parents circle. Marianna Vertinskaya was fond of her father, who invested much of his talent and energy in his daughter's education. Her famous father died when Marianna was 15, and she suffered from emotional trauma that cast influence on her youth. From 1962 - 1966 she studied acting under A. Borisov at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, graduating in 1966, as an actress.

Since 1966 Marianna Vertinskaya has been a member of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There her stage partners were such actors as Mikhail Ulyanov, Ruben Simonov, Vladimir Etush, Varvara Popova, Irina Kupchenko, Natalya Tenyakova, Yuliya Borisova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Nina Ruslanova, Ekaterina Raykina, Darya Peshkova, Elena Dobronravova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Andrei Abrikosov, Grigori Abrikosov, Nikolai Timofeyev, Aleksandr Grave, Evgeniy Karelskikh, and Sergey Makovetskiy among others.

Marianna Vertinskaya shone in the title role in the legendary 1963 re-creation of Vakhtangov's production of Carlo Gozzi's comedy 'Princess Turandot'. She also made memorable appearances in Dostoevsky's 'Idiot', in Moliere's 'Meshchanin vo dvoryansyve', and in other plays at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. Marianna Vertinskaya was designated Honorable Actress of Russia. She is living and working in Moscow, Russia.

- IMDb mini biography by: Steve Shelokhonov