Antonina Maksimova

Birthday: 1916-10-25
Deathday: 1986-10-07
Birthplace: Tula, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

Antonina Mikhailovna Maksimova (25.10.1916, Tula — 7.10.1986, Moscow); her mother was a housewife and her father worked at the Tula Arms Factory. She had two brothers, both of whom went on to become engineers. From a young age, she dreamed of a career in acting; she performed in amateur productions and was an excellent singer, dancer, and reciter. After finishing school, she was accepted into drama school at first attempt. In 1938, she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Whilst studying at GITIS, she made her film debut and, in the latter half of the 1930s, she rose to widespread fame following leading roles in the films Dawns of Paris, in which she played the French revolutionary Catherine Millard, and The Sailors, where she portrayed Senior Lieutenant Galina Zorina, commander of a seaplane squadron.

From 1938, she was an actress at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. From 1940, she worked at the Saratov Drama Theatre named after Karl Marx; her roles included Katya in The Barbarians; Katerina in In the Steppes of Ukraine; and Smelskaya in Talents and Admirers. Between 1941 and 1943, she served in the Great Patriotic War as a radio operator. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class (1985). From 1943 to 1946, she was an actress with the 1st Front Theatre of the All-Russian Theatre Society (VTO); her roles included Liza in Wait for Me; Varya in Frol Skobelev; Maria in The Taming of the Tamer. In 1946, she performed with the drama collective of the Central House of Culture for Railway Workers (Tsentral'nyy Dom Kul'tury Zheleznodorozhnikov), playing Polina in the production of The Stepmother and Nina Alexandrovna in the play Mashenka. From 1947 to 1986, she was an actress at the Film Actors’ Studio Theatre; her roles included: Pamela in The Island of Peace, Alena Dmitrievna in Three Soldiers, Anna in Sofya Kovalevskaya, Klavdiya in Vanyushin’s Children, Feny in The Director, Marfa Petrovna in Russian People, Kabanikha in The Storm. She also acted at the Mosfilm film studio. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1969). After the war, she mainly played supporting roles on screen. In 1955, she played Iago’s wife Emilia in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, directed by Sergei Yutkevich.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	1984-01-01	Birthday
	1982-12-20	Everything Could Have Been Otherwise	Yekaterina Ivanovna
	1981-11-01	Lenin in Paris	Laura Lafargue
	1978-10-29	The Mire	villager
	1978-01-30	I Guarantee A Survival	Masha's grandmother
	1976-01-05	We Didn't Learn This	Galina Petrovna
	1975-07-18	Concerto for Two Violins	Andrei's mother
	1974-12-25	The Great Tamer	Savva's Mother
	1974-01-31	Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
	1973-11-03	How the Steel Was Tempered	мать Павки Екатерина Михайловна
	1972-11-08	Red Sun
	1972-10-02	Boys	Vera Ivanovna
	1972-05-22	Reserve Officer
	1971-06-23	Integral
	1971-03-30	Party Secretary	Zadorozhnaya
	1971-02-11	Late Child
	1970-03-16	Postal Romance
	1968-01-22	Your Contemporary	Елизавета Кондратьевна
	1968-01-01	Early on Sunday, I Dug a Potion
	1967-02-27	On the Wild Shore
	1967-02-27	Adventures of a Dentist
	1966-05-22	Beware of the Car!	актриса народного театра
	1964-06-01	Yelena's Bay
	1962-12-03	Come Tomorrow...	Natasha
	1962-07-11	The Judgment
	1961-12-30	The Steamroller and the Violin	Sasha's mother
	1961-08-09	Lyubushka
	1961-01-13	Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend	Antonina Petrovna Stepanova
	1961-01-01	Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre	La directrice de kolkhoze
	1960-12-31	Farewell, Doves
	1959-12-01	Ballad of a Soldier	Katerina, Alyosha's Mother
	1959-08-24	This Is How Mayakovsky Began	Lyudmila
	1957-03-25	The Secret of Two Oceans	Olga Ivanovna Bystrykh, doctor of the Pioneer submarine
	1955-12-02	Othello	Emilia
	1955-04-01	The Grasshopper	Zvonkovskaya
	1950-12-31	The Second Caravan
	1949-02-25	Court of Honor
	1939-12-29	The Air Mail
	1939-12-03	Sailors
	1936-12-20	The Paris Commune	Catherine Millard
	1934-02-19	Petersburg Nights	Nihilistic student (uncredited)