Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
November 3, 1904
Died
November 19, 1987
Age
83
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Popularity
0.3
Valentina Vagrina
Acting
Biography
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957). One of the last students of Evgeny Vakhtangov, she was an actress at the Vakhtangov Theatre (1921-37, 1946-78). A bright, precise, and intelligent actress, she endured much: both a labor camp and exile (1937-46) as punishment for her repressed husband. In the 1950s, during the "Khrushchev Thaw," she was rehabilitated, but her artistic career never fully recovered; her best creative years were lost forever. She became the wife of the artist N. I. Osenev (1909—1983), whose works she donated to the Russian Cultural Foundation after his death.
