Portrait of Lila Kedrova

Lila Kedrova

Acting

Biography

Lila Kedrova (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lila Kedrova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: October 9, 1909

Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Filmography

1993
1991
1988
Some Girls

as Granny

1982
Blood Tide

as Sister Anna

1979
Womanlight

as Sonia Tovalski

1979
1979
1977
Widows' Nest

as Mother

1977
Stop Calling Me Baby!

as Countess de Tocqueville

1976
The Tenant

as Madame Gaderian

1976
Trotsky is Dead

as Natasha

1975
The Night Child

as Contessa Cappelli

1975
1974
1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles

as Madame Grenier

1972
Escape to the Sun

as Sarah Kaplan

1972
Cool Million

as Mme. Martine

1972
Rak

as David's mother

1972
A Time for Loving

as Madame Olga

1970
The Kremlin Letter

as Madam Sophie

1968
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

as Yolanda's Mother

1966
Penelope

as Princess Sadaba

1966
Torn Curtain

as Countess Kuchinska

1964
Zorba the Greek

as Madame Hortense

1964
Death of a Killer

as La mère de Massa

1963
Gypsy Law

as Kirvi

1959
My Pal the Gypsy

as 'La Choute'

1958
1958
1957
Until the Last One

as Marcella Bastia

1956
Main Street

as Pepita

1956
People of No Importance

as Mme. Vacopoulos

1955
School for Love

as Mrs. Dimater, Sophie's mother

1955
Razzia

as Léa, la toxicomane

1955
The Ragpickers of Emmaus

as Bastien's wife (uncredited)

1954
Les impures

as Mme Denis, la concierge

1953
No Way Back

as Ljuba

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1938
Ultimatum

as Irina